urbanisation

Cities can be engines of growth. How can policymakers realise the benefits of cities while minimising the drawbacks of urbanisation?

Amidst rapid urbanisation and climate change, evidence on urban expansion and flood exposure can help policymakers increase climate resilience in the world’s cities.

Insecure land property rights are an important constraint on migration, structural transformation, and productivity growth, as much as all other labour mobility barriers in China

Political party turnover in a local election increased completion times of real estate projects in Mumbai

Rising temperatures reduce the proportion of workers in non-agricultural activities and inhibit structural transformation, with effects intensifying in the long run

Railways encouraged the growth of cities in colonial India and market access helps explain why

Subsidised government-constructed housing increases income, education, and employment in Mumbai

Migration and fertility decisions are highly integrated, and policies ignoring that relationship can threaten economic growth

Satellite imagery of night-time city lights suggests that agglomeration is skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India, as it is in developed economies