investments in rural development and agriculture. However, constraints in the creation of productive urban jobs, limited …The Mozambique urbanization review aimed at contributing to the country's policy and institutional reform agenda on how … to harness the full potential of urbanization to promote economic growth and poverty reduction. The study carried out in …

of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of … facts of urbanization, development, and structural transformation. The analysis makes use of two alternative methodologies …Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level …

This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and … deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares … heterogeneity across Sub-Saharan Africa subregions, with the Southern region being the only subregion to have witnessed …

elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …

This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a …-inelastic (assuming the non-farm good is non-tradable), or non-agriculture is less labor intensive relative to agriculture (assuming the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …

make the third even more dramatic and impactful. They are: rapid urbanization; rapid economic development and income growth … Africa regional workshop in Livingstone in May 2019. The objective of this workshop was to: (a) develop an understanding of … smaller capital cities in Southern Africa can exchange ideas and consider options to address their current urban mobility …

successful urban economic development in other regions. Such scale economies can arise in Africa, and they will-if city and … entrepreneurs look at Africa and see crowded, disconnected, and costly cities. Such cities inspire low expectations for the scale of …Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why …

Urban Development in Africa: Enhancing the Relationship Between Urbanization, Environmental Assets and Ecosystem Services …The city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has undergone a period of unprecedented urbanization that has contributed to the … growing city in East Africa. The arrival of thousands of in-migrants year after year has overwhelmed the city's ability to …

promoting green urban development in Africa: enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets, and …The city of Kampala has undergone a period of rapid urbanization that has contributed to the degradation of the city … and infrastructure services. The city has recently made progress in the development of key infrastructure systems such as …

, oversight agencies, and other stakeholders in Africa with a basis for decision-making on the suitability, introduction, and … water pioneers in Africa. The study specifically canvased the perspectives of customers, including market research and …