Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …

simple urban model illustrates that in closed economies, agricultural prosperity leads to more urbanization but that in an … open economy, urbanization increases with agricultural desperation. The challenge of developing world mega-cities is that …

urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …

Africa is urbanizing rapidly, and this creates both opportunities and challenges. Labor productivity appears to be much … higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … structural transformation has suggested that urbanization in the developing is occurring `too early', while another strand argues …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …