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We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban...
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As the world moves towards its so-called urban 'tipping point',urbanization in the global South has increasingly come …
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place) and territoriality in the course of waging sectarian violence. -- urbanization ; cities ; urban conflict ; Lebanon …
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This paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties …, as well as those for projecting urbanization. We also analyze recent trends and patterns in urbanization. Finally, we … describe the principal channels of urbanization and examine their relative contributions to the global urbanization process …
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This paper explores one possible argument for how to respond to the epistemic troubles in the production of knowledge about urban Africa. The problem I have in mind is the preponderance of policy-oriented research on the development challenges and absences of African cities, as opposed to a more...
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policies relating to women's empowerment against a backdrop of rapid urbanization. -- urbanization ; women ; malnutrition …
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A common challenge in analyzing urbanization is the data. The United Nations (UN) compiles information on urbanization … conduct a cross-country analysis or determine the aggregate urbanization status of the regions (such as Asia or Latin America … index. -- agglomeration index ; urbanization ; accessibility map ; cost surface …
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-income nations and how this limits the accuracy of international comparisons - for instance of levels of urbanization and of the size … misconceptions in regard to growth rates for city populations and for nations' levels of urbanization. It ends with some comments on … how data limitations distort urban policies. -- urbanization ; city populations ; censuses …
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development agendas, and concludes with a call for a renewed vision of Latin American urban life. -- Latin America ; urbanization …
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