On the Urbanization of Poverty
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...
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okr-10986-196812021-04-23T14:03:43Z On the Urbanization of Poverty Ravallion, Martin AVAILABLE DATA CAPITAL ACCOUNT COUNTRY DATA DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC REVIEW EMPIRICAL RESULTS ERROR TERM EXTERNAL TRADE GROWTH RATE HEALTH INSURANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET MARGINAL PRODUCT NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR LIVING POOR POPULATION POPULATION SHARE POVERTY LINES POVERTY POLICY POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC HEALTH RELATIVE WAGE RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS SPILLOVERS STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TRADE POLICY UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN URBAN AREAS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN LABOR URBAN MIGRATION URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBANIZATION URBANIZATION OF POVERTY 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. 2014-08-26T15:45:09Z 2014-08-26T15:45:09Z 2001-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/04/1121144/urbanization-poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19681 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2586 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research India |
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AVAILABLE DATA CAPITAL ACCOUNT COUNTRY DATA DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC REVIEW EMPIRICAL RESULTS ERROR TERM EXTERNAL TRADE GROWTH RATE HEALTH INSURANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET MARGINAL PRODUCT NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR LIVING POOR POPULATION POPULATION SHARE POVERTY LINES POVERTY POLICY POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC HEALTH RELATIVE WAGE RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS SPILLOVERS STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TRADE POLICY UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN URBAN AREAS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN LABOR URBAN MIGRATION URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBANIZATION URBANIZATION OF POVERTY |
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AVAILABLE DATA CAPITAL ACCOUNT COUNTRY DATA DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC REVIEW EMPIRICAL RESULTS ERROR TERM EXTERNAL TRADE GROWTH RATE HEALTH INSURANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET MARGINAL PRODUCT NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR LIVING POOR POPULATION POPULATION SHARE POVERTY LINES POVERTY POLICY POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC HEALTH RELATIVE WAGE RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS SPILLOVERS STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TRADE POLICY UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN URBAN AREAS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN LABOR URBAN MIGRATION URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBANIZATION URBANIZATION OF POVERTY Ravallion, Martin On the Urbanization of Poverty |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2586 |
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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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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Ravallion, Martin |
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Ravallion, Martin |
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Ravallion, Martin |
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On the Urbanization of Poverty |
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On the Urbanization of Poverty |
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On the Urbanization of Poverty |
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On the Urbanization of Poverty |
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On the Urbanization of Poverty |
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on the urbanization of poverty |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/04/1121144/urbanization-poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19681 |
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