Luisito Bertinelli

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role that climate change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub-Saharan African countries compared to the rest of the developing world and find that this link has become stronger since decolonization, which is likely due to the often simultaneous lifting of legislation prohibiting the free internal movement of native Africans.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role that climate change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub-Saharan African countries compared to the rest of the developing world and find that this link has become stronger since decolonization, which is likely due to the often simultaneous lifting of legislation prohibiting the free internal movement of native Africans.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple urban economics framework is proposed to highlight how the trade-off between optimal and equilibrium city size behaves when introducing dynamic human capital externalities beside the classical congestion externalities.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of rainfall trends in poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African nations relative to other developing countries, using a new cross-country panel climatic data set in an empirical economic growth framework.

TL;DR: The authors re-examine the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) across countries using a semi-parametric regression estimator, which places no restrictions on the functional form.