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On the urbanization of poverty

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  • Ravallion, Martin

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The author identifies conditions under which the urban sector's share of the poor population in a developing country will be a strictly increasing and strictly convex function of its share of the total population. Cross-sectional data afor 39 countries and time-series data for for India are consistent with the expected theoretical relationship. The empirical results imply that the poor urbanize faster than the population as a whole. But the experience across developing countries suggests that a majority of the poor will still live in rural areas long after most people in the developing world live in urban areas.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 2586.

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Date of creation: 30 Apr 2001
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Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:2586

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Keywords: Urban Housing and Land Settlements; National Urban Development Policies&Strategies; Health Indicators; Health Information&Communications Technologies; Poverty Reduction Strategies; Poverty Assessment; Achieving Shared Growth; City Development Strategies; Health Economics&Finance; Urban Housing and Land Settlements;

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