Since the pioneer work of Williamson, several authors have shown that urban concentration in a country tends to increase during the economic take-off and the industrialisation, and to decrease beyond a given per capita income of about 5000 $ (of 1985). This article provides an insight, using the...

Maurice CATIN et Christophe VAN HUFFEL Despite a dramatic growth since 1978, China shows an increasing dualism between its coastal provinces highly integrated in the world economy and its relatively autarkical hinterland provinces. This paper shows that government institutional choices have...

We analyze the main determining features of the evolution of the urbanization rate and of the urban primacy rate in developing countries, which is a bone of contention in the literature. We show that urbanization rate and urban primacy present specific trajectories according to the different...