Since the early 1980s, Turkey has been going through a rapid urbanization process at a pace beyond the World average …. This paper aims at assessing the impact of this rapid urbanization process on the country's sector productivity. The … econometric relation linking sector productivity to accessibility, localization, and urbanization economies, proxying variables in …

Sub-Saharan Africa since the majority of its population growth over the next few decades is expected to be in urban areas. …

urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm … than agglomeration in mega cities. This suggests that patterns of urbanization deserve much more attention when striving …

In the past dozen years, a literature has developed arguing that urbanization has unfolded differently in post …-independence Sub-Saharan Africa than in the rest of the developing world, with implications for African economic growth overall. While … sector gross domestic product data are of very low quality, especially in Africa. When instead viewed from the perspective of …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

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 has not. The results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …