of the evidence of a rapid pace of urbanization process. Using a database with information of 162 regions of 8 Latin … American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Peru) during the period 2000-2009, we … estimate the effect of agglomeration on regional growth in three periods. The measures of agglomeration are urbanization rate …

spatial lags. Last, we investigate the specific role of urbanization. The intuition is that a critical level of urbanization … great heterogeneity of Ecuadorian cantons in terms of urbanization. Our empirical work is mainly based on the Economic …-monotonous effect of urbanization on the various externalities that impact on the local productivity. Precisely, the positive …

We empirically analyzed the relationship between the change in industrial structure and urbanization using post … service industries). We also focused on the different patterns of migration in the process of urbanization: intra … growth in Japan, industrialization induced population inflow from other prefectures, and this effect promoted urbanization in …