Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization across the continent. The paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass laws, to explore how exogenous population shocks affect the spatial...

This book aims to improve readers’ understanding of the puzzle of Malawi’s development performance and identify ways for the country to achieve robust growth and stay on a stable growth path that helps the poor. The book places a strong emphasis on assessing Malawi’s growth experience...

Global migration database -- Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks / Christopher R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters -- Impact on development -- The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin...