Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process to China's housing …

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …

allocation. We develop a two-stage estimation approach and apply it to China's loan-level data that covers all sectors in the …