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 …

Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing … the 1983-1999 period, the authors find that urbanization has a substantial and systematic poverty-reducing effect in the … nature and is largely attributable to the positive spillovers of urbanization on the rural economy rather than to the …

of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of … urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the size of its agricultural sector. However, countries in the Latin America …, Caribbean countries appear significantly less urbanized. However, analyses involving cross-country comparisons of urbanization …

continuous urbanization accompanied by a gradual phasing-in of urban land property rights over time. Today, however, the evidence … in many fast urbanizing low-income countries points towards a different trend of “urbanization without formalization … dynamics of land property rights and urbanization. The calibrated baseline model describes a city that first grows informally …

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we … herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also …

This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective …

identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … advantage from agriculture to manufacturing. In order to prevent this disparity from culminating in serious social and political …