The slowing of sub-Saharan Africa's urbanization: evidence and implications for urban livelihoods

By D. Potts. 2009

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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Population predictions for the world’s largest cities in the 21st century (2017, background): “Arouri, M H, A Ben Youssef, H Mhenni and C Rault (2014), “Energy Use and Economic Growth in Africa: A Granger Causality Panel Investigation”, Economics Bulletin Vol 34, No 2, pages 1247–1258.”
The implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change (2009, background): “Low-income nations that have little or no economic growth probably have little or no growth in GHGs in their urban areas, just as they generally have little or no increase in their urbanization levels (Potts, 2009).”
The Role of Rural–Urban Migration in the Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “However, there is recent evidence that growth has slowed or even reversed in some cases (e.g., Potts, 2009).”
Africa’s Evolving Employment Trends (2018, background): “Potts (2009) observed slowing levels of urbanisation in some parts of Africa partly due to circular migration of people between urban and rural areas in response to growing economic hardship in urban centres.”
Urbanization and its implications for food and farming (2010, background): “…few decades have most of their urban population growth from urbanization; nations with little or no economic growth and high rates of natural increase (including many sub-Saharan African nations during the 1990s) have most of their urban population growth from natural increase (see Potts 2009).”
Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria (2012, background): “These estimates and trends tally with the findings of my recent work on West African censuses which found sharply reduced growth in many large urban centres, and very gradual increases in the levels of national urbanization in several countries (Potts 2009, 2010).”