Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty)...
This report, which examines the location behaviour of manufacturing firms in urban areas, is part of a World Bank urban study project. A theoretical model of employment location is formulated and extended...
Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan...
In response to the object housing conditions in urban areas of the developing world (recent estimate indicates that up to 40% of the population of some of the world's largest cities live in inadequate...
The twentieth century has witnessed a profound increase in the world's population and an equally remarkable increase in the proportion of the world's population living in urban areas. This paper analyzes...
A method that represents income and poverty differences within a country more accurately than do methods based on money income measures is described. Focusing on the cost of basic requirements of food...
This paper presents the results of an analysis of urban housing demand for Korea taking into account the most recent findings of housing demand analysis concerning specification and aggregation biases...