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Building malls or metros? : South Africa's exports of tradable urban services to the rest of Africa

Turok, Ivan; Visagie, Justin - 2020

capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …. There are many opportunities to expand trade in services between South Africa and other African countries. Improvements in … urban planning, design, and governance are vital to create more productive and liveable cities. South Africa has many …

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Mortality, migration, and rural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa's urban transition

Fox, Sean - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 83 (2017) 1, pp. 13-30

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African urbanization : an analytic policy guide

Collier, Paul - In: Oxford review of economic policy 33 (2017) 3, pp. 405-437

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The effects of natural resources on urbanization, concentration, and living standards in Africa

Ebeke, Christian; Ntsama Etoundi, Sabine Mireille - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 96 (2017), pp. 408-417

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Cash in the city : emerging lessons from implementing cash transfers in urban Africa

Gentilini, Ugo; Khosla, Saksham; Almenfi, Mohamed; … - 2021

Poverty and crises are rapidly â€œurbanizingâ€ . Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes...

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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...

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African smart cities strategies for Agenda 2063

Slavova, Mira; Okwechime, Ekene - In: Africa journal of management 2 (2016) 2, pp. 210-229

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Negotiating the social contract in urban Africa : informal food traders in Ghanaian cities

Resnick, Danielle; Sivasubramanian, Bhavna - 2020

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Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization : what experience for African countries?

Ngounou, Borice Augustin; Tekam Oumbé, Honoré; Nkoa, … - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 28 (2024) 1, pp. 34-70

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Urbanization and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from dynamic panel data analysis of selected urbanizing countries

Ahimah-Agyakwah, Solomon; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-27

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is generally highlighted as a puzzle that deviates from the stylized facts in …-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in …

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