IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sptchp/978-3-319-89755-4_10.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Urbanization

In: Economic Growth and Development

Author

Listed:
  • Sibabrata Das

    (International Monetary Fund)

  • Alex Mourmouras

    (International Monetary Fund)

  • Peter Rangazas

    (Indiana University-Purdue University)

Abstract

In this chapter we study migration to the city and its effects on urbanization. In previous chapters we studied how the structural transformation affects economic growth and, in particular, how migration to the modern sector may alter private sector behavior. Here, we focus on the question of the best pace of urbanization as it relates to the allocation of rural and urban government services. Our motivation comes from the fact that the vast majority of governments around the developing world are concerned about the adequacy of public goods provision and the crowding associated with rapid urbanization (Bloom and Khanna (2007)). In this sense, the structural transformation, which generally raises economic growth, can occur too quickly. A second important issue we address is the role politics plays in exacerbating rural-urban inequalities. As first stressed by Lipton (1977), the disproportionate political power of urban interests (the “urban elite”) in some developing countries’ economic policies may distort the allocation of government services, exacerbate rural-urban inequalities, and intensify migration beyond efficient levels.

Suggested Citation

  • Sibabrata Das & Alex Mourmouras & Peter Rangazas, 2018. "Urbanization," Springer Texts in Business and Economics, in: Economic Growth and Development, edition 2, chapter 10, pages 301-331, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-319-89755-4_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89755-4_10
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Other versions of this item:

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-319-89755-4_10. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.