Is There a Metropolitan Bias? The Relationship between Poverty and City Size in a Selection of Developing Countries

Is There a Metropolitan Bias? The Relationship between Poverty and City Size in a Selection of Developing Countries

This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic pattern is generally robust to the choice of poverty line. Th...

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Main Authors: Ferre, Celine, Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Lanjouw, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:
consumption expenditures
extreme poverty
farmers
food consumers
global poverty
incidence of poverty
income
inequality
poor
poverty line
poverty rates
poverty reduction strategies
rural
rural areas
rural phenomenon
rural population
rural poverty
rural poverty reduction
sanitation
unemployment
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19076

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