One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in...

This paper provides estimates of the parameters of commercial energy consumption, while emphasising the energy cross-sectional data for 47 African countries. It examines whether this relationship has remained stable, following the adoption of SAPs initiated in the early 1980s, and investigates...