labor force, productivity growth in non-agriculture, and growth rate of agriculture itself. To check for the validity of the …

Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

Inexorable urbanization and formalization have been the expectations in development discourse. Indeed, measures of … urbanization and formalization have been provided and used as indicators of development. But while urbanization has proceeded apace … questions for development analysis and development policy. Why did one expect urbanization and formalization to go together in …

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 …