Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of images -- Introduction -- New urban politics -- Accumulation, estrangement, and displacement -- Resettlement and the territorialization of exploitation -- Of unruly practices and resistance -- Reversing the arrow? : theory transfer and theory-building --...

n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in rapidly industrializing countries. We use a dynamic, small open economy model with an abundant supply of surplus labor in rural areas, two types of traded goods manufactured in...

For people in rural areas of developing countries, finding a better paying job or better education is often only possible by moving - migrating - somewhere else. Moreover, agricultural production, generally the main economic activity in rural areas of developing countries, is risky, affected by...