The urban penalty of COVID-19 lockdowns across the globe: manifestations and lessons for Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa

I Chirisa, T Mutambisi, M Chivenge, E Mabaso… - GeoJournal, 2020 - Springer
The paper contributes towards deciphering and decoding the misery of the urban poor in
light of the COVID-19 scourge. The paper unpacks urban poverty in light of the corona virus …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanisation and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of pathways and impacts

TG Sakketa - Research in Globalization, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural
development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with special emphasis to the …

Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: A global synthesis

B Güneralp, M Reba, BU Hales… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The physical expansion of urban areas lead to lasting impacts on landscapes and
livelihoods. Here, we conduct a global synthesis of trends in urban land expansion, in urban …

Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities

J Roy, P Tscharket, H Waisman, S Abdul Halim… - 2018 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

R Bluhm, A Dreher, A Fuchs, B Parks, A Strange… - 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity
within low-income and middle-income countries? Existing research focuses on the effects of …

Building up or spreading out? Typologies of urban growth across 478 cities of 1 million+

R Mahtta, A Mahendra, KC Seto - Environmental Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Urban form in both two-(2D) and three-dimensions (3D) has significant impacts on local and
global environments. Here we developed the largest global dataset characterizing 2D and …

[图书][B] Taxing Africa: coercion, reform and development

M Moore, W Prichard, OH Fjeldstad - 2018 - library.oapen.org
Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number
crunchers–an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or …

[图书][B] High-growth firms: Facts, fiction, and policy options for emerging economies

AG Goswami, D Medvedev, E Olafsen - 2019 - books.google.com
Remarkably, a small fraction of firms account for most of the job and output creation in high-
income and developing countries alike. Does this imply that the path to enabling more …

The impacts of urbanisation and climate change on the urban thermal environment in Africa

X Li, LC Stringer, M Dallimer - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rapid urbanisation is affecting people in different ways, with some becoming more
vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Africa's cities are projected to be home to nearly …

Africa's “youth employment” crisis is actually a “missing jobs” crisis

J Sumberg, L Fox, J Flynn, P Mader… - Development Policy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Motivation The Sustainable Development Goals target decent work for all, including
youth, by 2030. In sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), however, a “youth employment crisis” is now …