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Policy Insight 71: Making city lights shine brighter

Urbanisation and GDP per capita are positively correlated across countries. However, when the sample is restricted to developing countries, urbanisation and growth are more loosely related. Policy Insight 71 tries to explain this discrepancy.

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Yusuf, S and D Leipziger (2014), Policy Insight 71: Making city lights shine brighter, CEPR Policy Insight No 71, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/policy-insight-71-making-city-lights-shine-brighter