about urban Africa. The problem I have in mind is the preponderance of policy-oriented research on the development …

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural … role of economic factors such as the lack of agglomeration economies and poor infrastructure in urban Africa. …

at the city level in Africa, this scholarship has neglected the political economy and, more importantly, the informal …

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and …

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

-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 …

urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing … deceleration. This questions the postulate of the epicentre of urbanization shifting to Asia. It also lends credence to the thesis … dent on macro-level aggregates. -- Water supply ; perceptions ; environmental health ; transition ; urbanization …