This paper offers a novel explanation for the lower urbanization rate and great urban-rural inequality in China. Our … study reveals that, heavy-industry-oriented development strategy will result in lower urbanization rate and higher urban …-rural inequality. The greater the degree of heavy-industryoriented development strategy is, the lower the urbanization rate is, and the …

Urbanization has been progressing quickly in Indonesia and the consequences on health and health inequities are still …

n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …

This paper traces the urbanization experience of Tagbilaran City, Bohol taking into account the demographic development … urban status. It also looks into the nature and magnitude of government responses to the demands of increasing urbanization …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and … define urbanization in terms of movements across the distribution of this index. We use difference-in-differences estimators …

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