higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …

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 … resident's call home. Urbanization is perhaps the single most important question in development today. It is clear that cities …

Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion …

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …