Becker, Charles M.; Morrison, Andrew R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1673-1790). 1999
The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic change in the way in which people live. Fifty years ago, only a small proportion of the less developed world lived in cities, and world poverty was overwhelmingly rural. In 1950, less than one-fifth of the population of the “third world” was...