Urban dwellers are rapidly becoming a majority of the population. Most of them live in developing countries, and an ever-higher proportion in the biggest cities. Most of the world’s largest cities are now in developing countries, and they are growing to sizes never before experienced. The urban population is growing several times as fast as in the rural areas, either through natural growth (the...

s The purpose of this paper is to explain the determinants of migration in Korea with the ratio of farm to unskilled urban wages using the time series data according to the Todaro hypothesis with the VAR approaches for capturing the short-run behavior of each variable and that analyzes the overall fluctuation of internal migration based on white noise disturbances. The test results show that th...

INTRODUCTION Whilst the relationship between lipids and cardiovascular mortality has been well studied and appears to be controversial, very little has been explored in the context of rural-to-urban migration in low-resource settings. OBJECTIVE Determine the profile and related factors for HDL-c patterns (isolated and non-isolated low HDL-c) in three population-based groups according to their...

I would like to thank my advisors, Joel Mokyr, Joe Ferrie, and Joe Altonji, for their helpful comments. I also benefited from conversations with Henry Siu, Jim Sullivan and Chris Taber, and from input from workshop participants at Northwestern University and participants of the 2002 All-UC Group in Economic History Conference and the 2002 Cliometrics Conference. Justin Hayes and Humphrey Southa...

This paper is a theoretical study of rural-urban migration—urbanization—as it has occurred in many low-income economies in the postwar period. This process is viewed as a transfer of labor from a traditional, land-intensive technology to a human capital–intensive technology with an unending potential for growth. The model emphasizes the role of cities as places in which new immigrants can accum...

Using population and product consumption data from the Demographic and Health Surveys I construct comparable measures of inequality and migration for 65 countries, including some of the poorest countries in the world. I find that the urban-rural gap accounts for 40% of mean country inequality and much of its cross-country variation. One out of every four or five individuals raised in rural area...

With the increasing attention on developing a low-carbon economy, it is necessary to seek appropriate ways on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through innovative municipal solid waste management (MSWM), such as urban symbiosis. However, quantitative assessments on the environmental benefits of urban symbiosis, especially in developing countries, are limited because only a limited number ...

BACKGROUND High levels of rural to urban migration are a feature of most African countries. Our aim was to investigate changes, and their determinants, in cardiovascular risk factors on rural to urban migration in Tanzania. METHODS Men and women (15 to 59 years) intending to migrate from Morogoro rural region to Dar es Salaam for at least 6 months were identified. Measurements were made at le...