"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 …

People's Republic of China (PRC), urbanization lags far behind industrialization. Institutional barriers against rural …This paper presents research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both urban and … for rural development, urbanization has propelled agricultural productivity, rural income, and consumption levels …

urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …

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

This paper summarizes and expands the state-of-the-art understanding of the urbanization, development, environment, and … inequality nexus. Economic growth/development, urbanization, and energy/electricity consumption are all highly correlated. While … urbanization may be more evidence of economic progress than a catalyst for economic growth, there is some evidence that poor …