indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening … development analysis and development policy. Is the link between urbanization and formalization more complex than what had been … informality. The second core section turns to processes of urbanization and asks how these processes intersect with and interact …

. Agricultural yields, intensity of input use, and diversity of output also increased. Improving property rights in peri-urban China …

China's national leaders have recently made a priority of changing lanes from a pollution-intensive, growth …-at-any-cost model to a resource-efficient and sustainable one. The immense challenges of rapid urbanization are one aspect of the … of environmental policies at the local level in China's urban areas and suggests ways to reduce or remove them. The …

The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by … benchmark case of the United States. The fourth section does the same for China and Mexico and compares the findings. And the …

The study addresses governance challenges in public service delivery in China. It builds on the citizen scorecard … experiments reducing the dependence on user fees in basic education and primary healthcare. It recognizes that China has been …