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 …

class include human capital, political capital and non-farming employment while industrialization, urbanization and …

indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening … development analysis and development policy. Is the link between urbanization and formalization more complex than what had been … informality. The second core section turns to processes of urbanization and asks how these processes intersect with and interact …