-quarters of the country's population will be living in cities. Along with the concentration of people, urbanization will lead to … not delivering on their full potential. Urbanization has not generated the same growth benefits in Morocco as it has in … from its urbanization process.The main message of this note is that urbanization and spatial equity are not competing …

poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …

to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …

into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …

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 …

This paper develops a tractable method to identify urban areas and applies it to India, where urbanization is messy …. And the speed of urbanization is only marginally higher than official statistics suggest. But a considerable number of …