Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … populations. Overall, the evidence suggests that exogenous migration shocks can foster urbanization in the medium run …

cities in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa for 1960-2006. The study also utilizes a new United Nations Population Division dataset …