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Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Deborah Potts

    (King’s College London)

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Urban settlements in Southern and Eastern Africa have experienced major changes in the processes that influence their nature and their role in national development since the 1960s, when independence came to many of the countries in the region. At the most basic level these changes reflect trends in economic development so that the economic declines, which have afflicted so many of the region’s nations since the end of the 1970s, have been translated into worse urban poverty and inadequate (or virtually non-existent) urban services. Beyond this basic backdrop, however, there are other important factors that have influenced urban trends. These are often more nuanced in their impact, with some significant degree of differentiation across the region.

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  • Deborah Potts, 2006. "Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 3, pages 67-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_3
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    Cited by:

    1. Satterthwaite, David, 2010. "Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that Underpin them," WIDER Working Paper Series 028, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Potts, Deborah, 2012. "Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(7), pages 1382-1393.

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