"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … for the sample of OECD countries. -- Growth ; foreign investment ; cities ; urbanization ; primacy ; spatial lags …