This paper documents a significant impact of climate variation on urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in more … especially out of the workforce. Overall, these findings imply a strong link between climate and urbanization in Africa …

the consequent stake in economic stability. This paper examines why such a process has not happened in Africa. The … neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never …

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 …