This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to … what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these … panel estimator. The findings showed that industrialisation had positive and significant effects on urbanisation. Further …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …

This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It … sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first …

role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …

elements for a commodities based industrialisation strategy, including an analysis of the benefits of such strategy for Africa … central question facing African economies is how to use economic growth to foster industrialisation and thereby facilitate … sectors can contribute to its industrialisation project, in light of the past de-industrialisation process and recent trends …

avenues and resources for transformation. -- Africa ; economic development ; economic history ; exports ; industrialization …