relationship between investment, urbanization, and economic growth. In one mechanism, urbanization generates demand for … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through … of goods and production factors (labor and capital) is a fundamental force that drives urbanization, but the market may …

African countries to spur growth and employment. Most special economic zones implemented in Southern Africa have largely … practice and review the implications for implementation and sustainability strategy in Southern Africa. The main findings point …

urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …

Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic … that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth in high income countries, but non-causality could not be rejected …-income, predominately African countries where economic growth had a positive, causal effect on urbanization, but where urbanization, in turn …

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural … role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …