Peri-Urban Economic Growth in Africa: Peri-Urban Studies in Africa. Annotated and General Bibliographies

摘要

The report is intended to document the important literature on peri-urban economies in Africa and to annotate the most important of these. The bibliographic review is not intended to be comprehensive. Its primary objective is to gain an understanding of the peri-urban literature as it relates to the three factor markets of labor, land, and finance in sub-Saharan Africa. Because the literature on peri-urban economies in Africa is very uneven and ill defined in many cases, it is necessary to address several topics that only deal in part with peri-urban areas and to examine literature of other world regions. Such topics include urban housing, the informal sector, and economic planning, while some literature on Asian and Western countries is also reviewed.