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 …

urbanization process and economic specialization of cities in Mali. We first construct an exhaustive panel data set of the 10 … complete distribution of urban and rural localities from 1976 to 1998. We show that the urbanization process in Mali is mainly … to public infrastructure amenities rather than urbanization externalities or sectoral externalities, the latter being not …

of quadratic interactions between the HDI components, and indicators of urbanization, trade, institutions, foreign direct … linear terms), again fully instrumented. Urbanization is a leading significant variable for human development indicators in … will have smaller returns than complementing them with institutions that can coordinate urbanization as well as investment …

I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic dynamics of urbanization and its relation … to economic growth. I then report research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization on human … variables to predict quinquennial changes in income, health, education and urbanization. The long-term analysis is a fully …