Cover -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Global Outlook: Disappointments, Risks, and Spillovers -- Summary and key messages -- Major economies -- Global trends and spillovers -- Developing countries -- Risks to the outlook --...

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Chapter 1 Global Outlook: A Fragile Recovery" -- "Summary" -- "Major economies: Recent developments and outlook" -- "Global trends" -- "Emerging market and developing economies: Recent...

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...