Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects

Deborah Potts
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Deborah Potts: King’s College London

Chapter 3 in African Urban Economies, 2006, pp 67-104 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Urban settlements in Southern and Eastern Africa have experienced major changes in the processes that influence their nature and their role in national development since the 1960s, when independence came to many of the countries in the region. At the most basic level these changes reflect trends in economic development so that the economic declines, which have afflicted so many of the region’s nations since the end of the 1970s, have been translated into worse urban poverty and inadequate (or virtually non-existent) urban services. Beyond this basic backdrop, however, there are other important factors that have influenced urban trends. These are often more nuanced in their impact, with some significant degree of differentiation across the region.

Keywords: Urban Growth; Structural Adjustment; Natural Increase; Urbanization Level; Urban Settlement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_3

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