from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we … herald cities with their industrial bases as “engines of growth,” does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also …