Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the … consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in the African LDCs. It is found that the … emerging trends and patterns of urbanization in the African LDCs within a dynamic dual-dual framework with a strong emphasis on …

rainfall, has acted to change urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa but not elsewhere in the developing world. Moreover, this link …We investigate the role that climatic change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub- Saharan African … estimate the determinants of urbanization. The results of our econometric analysis suggest that climatic change, as proxied by …

urbanization process and economic specialization of cities in Mali. We first construct an exhaustive panel data set of the 10 … complete distribution of urban and rural localities from 1976 to 1998. We show that the urbanization process in Mali is mainly … to public infrastructure amenities rather than urbanization externalities or sectoral externalities, the latter being not …

Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic … that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth in high income countries, but non-causality could not be rejected …-income, predominately African countries where economic growth had a positive, causal effect on urbanization, but where urbanization, in turn …

industrialization in the model capture the stages of incipient (density), intermediate (distance), and advanced (division) urbanization … urbanization. Relevant Korean examples are provided. …

capacities of large cities to respond to the growing water demands, induced by population growth and urbanization. The future …