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 …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

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

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses …

introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries …