Urbanization Does Not Necessarily Mean More Wealth - Global - The Atlantic Wire - 1 views
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Thomas Stellmach on 10 Nov 12Urbanization usually leads to higher GDP because of higher levels of productivity, the report says, which is illustrated in the graph to the left. All five of the East Asia and Pacific countries in the graph show a steady increase in GDP per capita as people move to cities. But that did not happen for Sub-Saharan Africa; the graph on the right shows a sporadic relationship between urbanization and GDP.