Structural transformation refers to the reallocation of economic activity across the broad
sectors agriculture, manufacturing, and services. This review article synthesizes and …

The world is becoming more and more urbanized at every income level, and there has been
a dramatic increase in the number of mega-cities in the developing world. This has led …

The COVID-19 pandemic has already made a significant impact on various sectors. No
country was fully prepared to face this global pandemic, and Indonesia is no exception. For …

We document a strong positive relationship between natural resource exports and
urbanization in a sample of 116 developing nations over the period 1960–2010. In countries …

We present a new multi‐sector growth model that features nonhomothetic, constant elasticity
of substitution preferences, and accommodates long‐run demand and supply drivers of …

This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined
as those living on less than $1.90 and between $1.90 and $3.10 per day in 2013, based on …

We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment was driven by
new cohorts entering the labor market. A new dataset of policy reforms supports an …

As an important representation of the evolution of the rural human–land relationship in the
process of urban–rural transformation development, labor migration between rural and …

Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard
models emphasize rural–urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural …

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use
longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, and exploit …