This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to … what extent does financial development affect this industrialisation- urbanisation nexus? To elicit answers to these … panel estimator. The findings showed that industrialisation had positive and significant effects on urbanisation. Further …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation us ing a panel of 49 African … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …

The paper assesses how remittances directly and indirectly affect industrialisation in a panel of 49 African countries … persistence in industrialisation and (iii) Instrumental Quantile Regressions (QR) to account for initial levels of … industrialisation. The non-interactive specification elucidates direct effects of remittances on industrialisation whereas interactive …

underwent industrialization prior to World War I. Based on the extensive evidence and analysis surveyed, the paper argues that … design, that economic conditions at the time of industrialization help set the initial conditions that shape financial system …

This paper reviews recent work on the economics of fast growing developing country cities, with a focus on Africa. It … sets out some of the broad facts about African urbanisation and summarises two recent pieces of research work. The first …

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural … role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …