the region still, however, tend to maintain that urbanization is occurring rapidly but, as this paper demonstrates, the … attempts to address this knowledge gap and shows how Nigeria’s level of urbanization has also been significantly over-estimated. …

In this paper, we empirically examine the effects of health, education, and urbanization on the total factor … productivity (TFP) of a large number of countries. We find that both urbanization and health indicators (life expectancy, infant … indicators of health and urbanization remain highly significant even after controlling for endogeneity. …

The process of urbanization represents the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities as a result … of people movement from rural areas to urban areas. Urbanization is widely accepted as a process with several …

time-to-market constraints, organization’s IS must be agile and flexible. The concept of IS urbanization has been proposed … urbanization rules. …

This study investigates the empirical relationship between the level of urbanization and size of the informal economy … that there is an inverted-U relationship between informality and the level of urbanization. That is, the share of the … informal sector grows in the early phases of urbanization due to several pull and push factors; however, it tends to fall in …

overcrowded urban areas. The so called "new style" of urbanization has potentially important implications for China's energy use … although the relationship between urbanization and energy intensity is not straight-forward. In this paper we investigate the … impact of urbanization and industrialization on the intensity of energy use in China using a balanced panel of 29 provinces …

Migration and urbanization have transformed the Chinese economy and society in the past 25 years. This paper intends to … findings are: (i) regional disparities of urbanization in China, in particular those between coastal and inland areas, are very … region. In central China, the secondary sector actually serves as the push factor for local urbanization; and in coastal …