No nation has ever achieved middle-class income status without urbanization. Globally, urbanization rates keep ascending, and the world is faced with a gigantic set of challenges coming out of demographic imbalances. While most of North America, Europe and China are seeing their populations diminish in numbers, Africa, Asia and the middle east are staged for...

Africa is urbanizing at twice the rate of Europe Africa’s urbanization rate has had a profound effect on its continental communities. According to the OECD, Africa is currently urbanizing at twice the rate that Europe did. The urban migration rate in Africa’s total population increased from 14% in 1950 to 40% in 2016. OECD experts...