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Urbanization, financial development, and sustainable development in West Africa

Adams, Samuel; Klobodu, Edem Kwame Mensah - In: Urbanization and its impact on socio-economic growth in …, (pp. 155-175). 2018

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Marketplace trade and West African urban development : a paradox

Ochia, Krys - 2022

This book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing sector by more than 95 percent. Exporting...

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The experience and impact of urban floods and pollution in Ebo Town, Greater Banjul Area, in The Gambia

Kavegue, Afi; Eguavoen, Irit - 2016

The unplanned settlement Ebo Town is flooded almost every year with polluted water from uphill Kanifing Municipality because of a lack of infrastructure for sanitation and drainage. When droughts occurred in the 1970s, destitute people started to move to the peripheral swamp of Tambi Wetland...

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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016

In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...

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Exploring the trade-urbanization nexus in developing economies : evidence and implications

Zhang, Yuan; Wan, Guanghua - 2017

Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have … participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade … explaining the cereals trade-population urbanization nexus, showing how cereals supply constrains population urbanization and how …

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