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 …

at the city level in Africa, this scholarship has neglected the political economy and, more importantly, the informal …

. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …

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. …