A common challenge in analyzing urbanization is the data. The United Nations (UN) compiles information on urbanization … conduct a cross-country analysis or determine the aggregate urbanization status of the regions (such as Asia or Latin America …

"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …

In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …

Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have … participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade … explaining the cereals trade-population urbanization nexus, showing how cereals supply constrains population urbanization and how …

This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter … level of individual cities. In the early stages of growth, economic development is characterized by urbanization – a spatial … aspects of the transformation? In any static, growth, or development–urbanization context, how do governance, institutions …

of the evidence of a rapid pace of urbanization process. Using a database with information of 162 regions of 8 Latin … estimate the effect of agglomeration on regional growth in three periods. The measures of agglomeration are urbanization rate … effect of urbanization changes was 5700 dollars of per capita income. Low-developed regions experience larger positive …

Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have … participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade … explaining the cereals trade-population urbanization nexus, showing how cereals supply constrains population urbanization and how …

In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …