of the evidence of a rapid pace of urbanization process. Using a database with information of 162 regions of 8 Latin … estimate the effect of agglomeration on regional growth in three periods. The measures of agglomeration are urbanization rate … effect of urbanization changes was 5700 dollars of per capita income. Low-developed regions experience larger positive …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … for the sample of OECD countries. -- Growth ; foreign investment ; cities ; urbanization ; primacy ; spatial lags …