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Urbanization without Growth : A Not-So-Uncommon Phenomenon

Fay, Marianne; Opal, Charlotte - 2000

To find out why African countries' experience with urbanization and sustained growth appeared to differ from that of … other countries, the authors investigated the determinants of urbanization across countries over 40 years. Rather than … opportunities. If location incentives are distorted, so is growth. The authors find that urbanization levels are closely correlated …

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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Storeygard, Adam - 2013

Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income of Sub-Saharan African cities, using two new data sources....

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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and ... Urban Push?

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Gindelsky, Marina; Jedwab, Remi - 2015

Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural … developing countries’ rapid urban growth and urbanization may also be linked to demographic factors, such as rapid internal urban … and displays strong associations with urban congestion, providing additional insight into the phenomenon of urbanization …

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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective

Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Ingelaere, Bert - 2017

This paper develops the concept of "action space" as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time...

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The Morphology of African Cities

Antos, Sarah E.; Lall, Somik V.; Lozano-Gracia, Nancy - 2016

This paper illustrates how the capabilities of GIS and satellite imagery can be harnessed to explore and better understand the urban form of several large African cities (Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, and Dakar). To allow for comparability across very diverse cities, this work...

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Breaking into Tradables : Urban Form and Urban Function in a Developing City

Venables, Anthony - 2017

Many cities in developing economies, particularly in Africa, are experiencing urbanization without industrialization …

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Leveraging Land to Enable Urban Transformation : Lessons from Global Experience

Lozano-Gracia, Nancy; Young, Cheryl; Lall, Somik V. - 2013

Around the world, in both developed and developing countries, policy makers use a variety of tools to manage and accommodate urban growth and redevelopment. Government officials have three main concerns in terms of land policy: (i) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure,...

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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction : The Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns

Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2013

A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only one in...

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A Global Urban Risk Index

Brecht, Henrike; Deichmann, Uwe; Wang, Hyoung Gun - 2013

Which cities have the highest risk of human and economic losses due to natural hazards? And how will urban exposure to major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the mortality and economic risks from disasters in 1,943...

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Urbanization and Property Rights

Cai, Yongyang; Selod, Harris; Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2015

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 …

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