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...
Main Authors: | Ferre, Celine, Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Lanjouw, Peter |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19076 |
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