change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the … mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network …

capitalization is now central to the urbanization process and that the urban fabric has provided the corporation with a durable … structure to guarantee a stream of income. Capitalized urbanization, I contend, is the building of a certain future into the … urban present - also understood as the extension of time (the future) through the concentration of space (urbanization). It …

suggests that the PRC government should adjust its policies on future urbanization for fewer restrictions on the further growth …

opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … interregional migration. Facing the challenges of fast urbanization and growing urban diseases, local governments still rely on the … lead to more social problems. Policy makers should reconsider the way to achieve efficient and harmonious urbanization by …

This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation … average. Overall, urbanization improves migrants' risk appetite, and mediated by this improvement, migrants are more likely to …

Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate … foreign trade) and benefits from urbanization (internal migration and agglomeration effects). Simulations suggest that urban … national growth. Given these trade-offs, we conclude that the urbanization's benefits argue against an agro …

urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide … thresholds of urbanization. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across countries through fixed effects and using a variety … of spatial econometric techniques, we find a robust association between earlier urbanization and agro …