rising demand from urbanization. The assessment used national accounts statistics to build a data set of residential housing …

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

. Only part of this evolution can be attributed to the gradual urbanization of settlements in the vicinity or larger towns …

services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data …

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 …

misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …

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 …

. The rapid urbanization of the informal sector plays the strongest role, while there is some evidence for subcontracting by … is strong, and varies across urban and rural areas in ways that bolster urbanization and subcontracting hypotheses …