relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for …

and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

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 … explanatory power for our new series of inequality measures back to 1981. Our simulations tracking the partial "Kuznets derivative …

dataset covering the whole world at 10-year frequency during the period 1970-2000. We find that rising temperatures reduce … urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …

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 …

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … spatial equilibrium. Despite their relative poverty, developing world cities are relatively highly productive, and often …

higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …