Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration
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This chapter considers the literature on urbanization and migration to cities from rural areas in developing and middle-income countries. The chapter assesses recent patterns, discusses traditional models, addresses more recent models of migration, presents some of the recent findings from the micro-econometric literature, and closes with a discussion of the role of cities in economic growth. Corresponding author: Charles Becker, Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0097 USA; [email protected]
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