We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
This study examines urban land development and links with the career concerns of local leaders who act as city developers
Malnutrition carries huge direct and indirect costs to individuals, families and to entire nations
This paper examines the urban wage premium in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda using data on workers for 2009 to 2013
A quantitative model of internal city structure to determine the causes and costs of the misallocation of land in a developing country city
How the capabilities of GIS and satellite imagery can be harnessed to explore the urban form of several large African cities
This paper documents the effect of road construction on city population growth through the channel of increasing market access
The population of the world is distributed very unevenly. In some places, one can go for miles without seeing another living soul
This paper investigates the relationship between the extent of a city’s subway network, its population and its spatial configuration
This paper investigates the relationship between the opening of a city’s subway network and its air quality.
As long as African cities lack functioning land markets and regulations and infrastructure investments, they will remain local cities
This paper asks whether the spatial distribution of key disamenities can explain the observed differences in living standards
This paper examines political favoritism of cites in national capital markets
Basic living standards in Africa vary continuously and increase monotonically across population density
Examines whether high search costs affects labor market outcomes of job seekers who live far away from jobs
This paper considers whether infrastructure investments in hazardous coastal areas continue to be justified
This paper gives an overview of the role of slums in urban Africa, focusing on Nairobi
Provides empirical and diagnostic analysis of urbanisation and related economic trends in the region
This paper examines the spatial organisation of jobs in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda
This paper studies a randomized controlled trial of job fairs in Addis Ababa
This paper compares the price levels of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa with those of other regions
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).