Where to Create Jobs : Cities or Towns?

Where to Create Jobs : Cities or Towns?

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question the authors extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christiaensen, Luc, De Weerdt, Joachim, Kanbur, Ravi
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
EMPLOYMENT
CITY
RURAL
OPPORTUNITIES
ECONOMIC GROWTH
URBANIZATION
JOB CREATION
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/961241497606064062/Where-to-create-jobs-cities-or-towns
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27478

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/961241497606064062/Where-to-create-jobs-cities-or-towns
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27478

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