: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

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 …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure has not. The results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

the entry of Banco Azteca, the first bank in Mexico targeting households from the informal sector. Panel data suggest that …

procedures. The program was implemented in Mexico in different municipalities at different dates. Authors estimates suggest that …

large informal or unregulated sector, Mexico. It studies quarterly gross flows of workers over a 15-year period that …