Since the early 1980s, Turkey has been going through a rapid urbanization process at a pace beyond the World average … urbanization economies, as well as market accessibility, are productivity-enhancing factors in Turkey, although the causation link …. This paper aims at assessing the impact of this rapid urbanization process on the country's sector productivity. The …

Many cities in developing economies, particularly in Africa, are experiencing urbanization without industrialization …

of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of … urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the size of its agricultural sector. However, countries in the Latin America …, Caribbean countries appear significantly less urbanized. However, analyses involving cross-country comparisons of urbanization …

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 …

services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data …

continuous urbanization accompanied by a gradual phasing-in of urban land property rights over time. Today, however, the evidence … in many fast urbanizing low-income countries points towards a different trend of ?urbanization without formalization … dynamics of land property rights and urbanization. The calibrated baseline model describes a city that first grows informally …