This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter … level of individual cities. In the early stages of growth, economic development is characterized by urbanization – a spatial … aspects of the transformation? In any static, growth, or development–urbanization context, how do governance, institutions …

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the … consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in the African LDCs. It is found that the … emerging trends and patterns of urbanization in the African LDCs within a dynamic dual-dual framework with a strong emphasis on …

number of mega-cities in the developing world. This has led scholars to believe that development and urbanization are not …). In particular, we first establish that, although urbanization and income remain highly correlated within any given year …, urbanization is 25-30 percentage points higher in 2010 than in 1500 at every level of income per capita. Second, while historically …

plough in Northern Europe led to increased population density and urbanization. White argued that it was impossible to take … find that regions with relatively more fertile clay soil experienced higher urbanization and population growth after the … suggest that the heavy plough accounts for around 10% of the increase in urbanization and population density during the High …

urbanization rate. For a panel of 41 African countries during the period 1960–2007, the paper’s three main findings are that: (i …) decreases in the share of agricultural value added lead to a significant increase in the urbanization rate; (ii) conditional on … changes in the share of agricultural value added GDP per capita growth does not significantly affect the urbanization rate …