Does Urbanization Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts

Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter. Using a large sample of Indian districts from the 1983–1999 period, we find that urbanization ha...

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Main Authors: Cali, Massimiliano, Menon, Carlo
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21003

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