This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective …

This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new … deforestation, pollution, and carbon intensities. Per capita emissions follow a $J$-curve. Specifically, poverty reduction occurs …

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

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 …

Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa places immense pressure on urban services to meet the needs of the burgeoning …

Urbanization is undoubtedly a key driver of development -- cities provide the national platform for prosperity, job … creation, and poverty reduction. But urbanization also poses enormous challenges that one is familiar with: congestion, air … pollution, social divisions, crime, the breakdown of public services and infrastructure, and the slums that one billion urban …

Urbanization deserves urgent attention from policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, and social reformers of all … stripes. Nothing else will create as many opportunities for social and economic progress. The urbanization project began …, the urban population in developing countries stood at 2.5 billion. The developing world can accommodate the urban …

production. Positive shocks to modern manufacturing spur urbanization in the rest of the developing world, but effects are …In the past dozen years, a literature has developed arguing that urbanization has unfolded differently in post …-independence Sub-Saharan Africa than in the rest of the developing world, with implications for African economic growth overall. While …