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 …

Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …

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 …

across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …

We document several facts about workforce transitions from the informal to the formal sector in Vietnam, a fast growing …

premium appears to have disappeared for less skilled workers. The cities of the developing world are growing particularly …

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …, we review the expanding body of economic research on developing world cities. One strand of this literature emphasizes … systems in the far more fluid cities of the developing world …

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