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Urbanization without Growth : A Not-So-Uncommon Phenomenon

To find out why African countries' experience with urbanization and sustained growth appeared to differ from that of other countries, the authors investigated the determinants of urbanization across countries over 40 years. Rather than studying individuals' decisions to migrate, they relie...

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Main Authors: Fay, Marianne, Opal, Charlotte
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
agglomeration economies
central governments
cities
civil liberties
civil unrest
civil war
country comparisons
crime
democracy
democratic regimes
economic conditions
economic development
economic growth
economic incentives
employment
environmental degradation
equalization
expenditures
growth performance
growth rate
health services
housing
housing finance
income
income growth
income level
large cities
laws
liberties
low income countries
migration
national economy
neighborhood
per capita income
political conditions
political rights
population density
productivity
public expenditures
public investment
public policy
resource allocation
roads
rural banks
rural dwellers
rural population
sanitation
schools
slums
social conditions
structural adjustment
tax revenues
towns
trade unions
transaction costs
transport
urban
urban area
urban areas
urban bias
urban centers
urban development
urban dwellers
urban economics
urban growth
urban infrastructure
urban poor
urban population
urbanization
urbanization process
wages
income levels
education
rural-urban differentials
wage differentiation
informal sector
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21373

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