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| Title: | | Urban settlement: Data, measures, and trends  |
| Authors: | | Bloom, David E. Canning, David Fink, Günther Khanna, Tarun Salyer, Patrick |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // World Institute for Development Economics Research 2010,12 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of urban populations across countries and over time are significant, and discuss the methods used to obtain these measurements, as well as those for projecting urbanization. We also analyze recent trends and patterns in urbanization. Finally, we describe the principal channels of urbanization and examine their relative contributions to the global urbanization process. |
| Subjects: | | urbanization measurement urban population |
| JEL: | | O18 R11 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-247-4 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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