Shanghai / Dar es Salaam / Johannesburg / Moscow / Kolkata / Istanbul / Preston / Osaka / Manila / Mexico City / Lagos / Lima / Birmingham / Boston / Liverpool / New York / Luanda / Paris / Stockholm / Oxford / Tokyo / Kinshasa / Manchester / Philadelphia / Delhi / Rome / Sao Paulo / Beijing / Karachi / Los Angeles / Amsterdam / Cairo / London / Rosario / Ouagadougou / Mumbai / Hamburg / Naples / Jakarta / Dhaka / Los Andes / Rio de Janeiro / Newcastle / Florence / /
Company
World Bank Urbanization / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Bangladesh / Pakistan / Nigeria / China / Philippines / India / / /
Facility
George Washington University / University of Houston / McElhinney Hall / /
IndustryTerm
urban transportation / city infrastructure / Web Appendix / food imports / Web Appendix Figure / /
NaturalFeature
Andes / /
Organization
UCLA / World Health Organization / Department of Economics / Institute for International Economic Policy / U.S. Department of State / George Washington University / World Bank / United Nations / University of Houston / NYU / Elliott School of International Affairs / /
Person
David Weil / Nico Voigtlaender / Dietrich Vollrath / Edward Glaeser / Hans-Joachim Voth / George Mason / Alain Bertaud / Remi Jedwab / Stelios Michalopoulos / Paul Romer / Mason-George Washington / /
The Mortality Transition, Malthusian Dynamics, and the Rise of Poor Mega-Cities∗ Remi Jedwab† and Dietrich Vollrath‡ Abstract: The largest cities in the world today lie mainly in poor countries, which is a departur