Urban Development Paper
URBANIZATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Congolese –German Center for Microfinance, UPC, Kinshasa, 2010
By Bugugu Muhigiri, Efekele Bokalo & Ileka Ngoy Under the supervision of Charlotte Wagner
ABSTRACT As people live more and more in cities, they change consumption habits, and in they turn towns attract investors, and the number of city dwellers increases. This paper investigates the link between urbanization and economic growth in general, and especially in Africa. Cities seem to be efficient in organizing exchange between suppliers and consumers, and contribute so to economic development. The positive correlation between urban growth and the development of economy has been shown in previous researches and confirm the theory of exchange.
Outline INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: URBAN GROWTH CHAPTER II: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER III: CORRELATION BETWEEN URBAN GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER IV: THE PROCESS OF URBANIZATION IN AFRICA CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION People live in a society and they organize their infrastructure according to their activities. As these latter grow, they upgrade the agglomeration to a city. Cities are playing a key role in development as they are moving forward, using more and more manpower and in the same time attracting new urban dwellers with the private and public services offered there. This phenomenon is faster with globalization as there is greater mobility and migration but also with the evolvement of economy moving from agriculture to the industry and services sectors. Nowadays, more than half the world population live in cities and the urban growth still goes on; besides, new challenges come with the development of towns and city halls have a greater responsibility to address them in order to alleviate urban poverty and increase human development. The purpose of this work is to determine whether (and how far) urbanization influences economic development, because such a subject is relevant as modernization is speeding up in
By Bugugu Muhigiri, Efekele Bokalo & Ileka Ngoy Under the supervision of Charlotte Wagner
ABSTRACT As people live more and more in cities, they change consumption habits, and in they turn towns attract investors, and the number of city dwellers increases. This paper investigates the link between urbanization and economic growth in general, and especially in Africa. Cities seem to be efficient in organizing exchange between suppliers and consumers, and contribute so to economic development. The positive correlation between urban growth and the development of economy has been shown in previous researches and confirm the theory of exchange.
Outline INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: URBAN GROWTH CHAPTER II: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER III: CORRELATION BETWEEN URBAN GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER IV: THE PROCESS OF URBANIZATION IN AFRICA CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION People live in a society and they organize their infrastructure according to their activities. As these latter grow, they upgrade the agglomeration to a city. Cities are playing a key role in development as they are moving forward, using more and more manpower and in the same time attracting new urban dwellers with the private and public services offered there. This phenomenon is faster with globalization as there is greater mobility and migration but also with the evolvement of economy moving from agriculture to the industry and services sectors. Nowadays, more than half the world population live in cities and the urban growth still goes on; besides, new challenges come with the development of towns and city halls have a greater responsibility to address them in order to alleviate urban poverty and increase human development. The purpose of this work is to determine whether (and how far) urbanization influences economic development, because such a subject is relevant as modernization is speeding up in
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