Counter-urbanisation on the Zambian Copperbelt? Interpretations and Implications

By D. Potts. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Urban Studies

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. F. Obeng-Odoom
2. Dietrich Vollrath
3. S. Corbridge
4. G. Jones
5. R. Jedwab
6. D. Potts
7. D. Gollin
8. Markus Poschke

In Safety Research

1. F. Obeng-Odoom
2. G. Jones
3. S. Corbridge
4. D. Gollin
5. R. Jedwab

In Urban Studies

1. F. Obeng-Odoom
2. G. Jones
3. S. Corbridge
4. D. Gollin
5. R. Jedwab
6. Dietrich Vollrath
7. D. Potts

Citations in the corpus

• The continuing debate about urban bias (2010, background): “This point is important in the light of recent work by Deborah Potts (2005), which argues that Bates’ paradigmatic work on urban bias in Zambia used data that overestimated levels of population and income per capita in urban areas.”
• Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria (2012, background): “Both Mali and Cote d’Ivoire have been reported to have counter-urbanized overall during the 1990s (Tacoli 2001; Beauchemin and Bocquier 2004; as did Zambia from 1980 to 2000 4 (Potts 2005).”
• The Informal Sector in Ghana under Siege (2011, result): “Also, a study of the dynamics of people in the informal sector would help complement similar studies elsewhere in Africa (e.g., Potts, 2005, 2006, 2007), South America at SAGE Publications on June 21, 2016jds.sagepub.comDownloaded from (e.g., Crossa, 2009), and beyond (e.g., Cabannes, Guimarães, &…”
• The urban informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa: from bad to good (and back again?) (2008, background): “When it comes to the assumptions of linearity embedded in modernisation, Zambia's experience in the late twentieth century provides a particularly telling challenge (Ferguson, 1999 ; Potts, 2005 ).”
• Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, background): “The most urbanized countries export natural resources: oil (e.g., Angola, Gabon and Nigeria), diamonds and/or gold (e.g., Botswana, Liberia and South Africa), copper (e.g., Zambia) or cocoa (e.g., Ivory Coast).”
• THE STATE AND THE INFORMAL IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN URBAN ECONOMIES: REVISITING DEBATES ON DUALISM (2007, methodology): “The urban economy has been extensively ‘informalized’, poverty has deepened, and the balance of economic forces between urban and rural areas has shifted so dramatically that Zambia has been de-urbanizing for twenty years (Potts 2005).”
• The slowing of sub-Saharan Africa's urbanization: evidence and implications for urban livelihoods (2009, background): “See, for instance, Satterthwaite, D (2002), Coping with Rapid Urban Growth, RICS, Leading Edge Series, London; also Brockerhoff, M (1999), “Urban growth in developing countries: a review of projections and predictions”, Population and Development Review Vol 25, No 4, pages 57–778; Bocquier, P (2004)”