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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

. 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 … capabilities to support urbanization in Africa. However, South African companies have been relatively unsuccessful at exporting …

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Urbanisation in developing economies : building cities that work

Venables, Anthony - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 5 (2018) 1, pp. 91-100

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 …

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Urbanization and International Migration From Africa

Ferri, Giovanni; Borsato, Roshan - 2018

Climate change exacerbates desertification forcing millions of rural people to urbanize, especially in developing countries. Our quantitative analysis across African countries highlights migrants’ two typical sequential moves: i) people escape from villages to cities; ii) through cities’...

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The Effect of Urban Migration on Educational Attainment : Evidence from Africa

van Maarseveen, Raoul - 2021

Is rural to urban migration in developing countries a viable way to improve the opportunities available to children? And does growing up in a city affect educational attainment? Using census data for 14 African countries combined with an age-at-move design, I show that childhood exposure to...

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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework

Sen, Kunal - 2024

role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …

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Urbanized and savvy : which African firms are making the most of mobile money?

Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars; Kodom, Michael - 2024

Our analysis of over 500 Ghanaian firms sheds light, for the first time, on how certain firms managed to extract value from mobile money. Our regressions point to the usefulness of this form of cashless payments in stabilizing sales during the COVID pandemic. Perhaps the most important message...

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Urbanized and savvy - which African firms are making the most of mobile money?

Ackah, Charles; Hanley, Aoife; Hecker, Lars; Kodom, Michael - 2024

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Agriculture and regional development in Greece

Kyrkilis, Dimitrios; Semasis, Simeon - 2012

This paper attempts to explore the effects of post-war war economic development model followed in Greece. The model is characterized by both the neglect of Greek agriculture and the emphasis on industrialization, mainly around the two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki. The model has to...

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The impact of energy intensity, urbanisation, industrialisation, and income on CO2 emissions in South Africa : an ARDL bounds testing approach

Nondo, Chali; Kahsai, Mulugeta S. - In: African journal of economic and sustainable development 7 (2020) 4, pp. 307-330

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Urbanisation and economic growth : some insights from the Himalayan state of Sikkim

Singha, Komol; Sherpa, Lakpa Doma; Jaman, Md. Samsur - In: The Indian economic journal 72 (2024) 3, pp. 411-426

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