Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective
This paper develops the concept of "action space" as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It...
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okr-10986-283712021-06-08T14:42:48Z Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective Ingelaere, Bert Christiaensen, Luc De Weerdt, Joachim Kanbur, Ravi POVERTY REDUCTION MIGRATION URBANIZATION JOBS SECONDARY TOWNS PERI-URBAN LIFE HISTORY RURAL LABOR MARKET This paper develops the concept of "action space" as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time through "cumulative causation." Such a dynamic framework allows for appreciating the role of secondary towns in rural-urban migration and poverty reduction. Secondary towns occupy a unique middle ground between semi-subsistence agriculture and the capitalistic city, between what is close by and familiar and what is much further away and unknown. By opening the horizons of the (poorer) rural population and facilitating navigation of the nonfarm economy, secondary towns allow a broader base of the poor population to become physically, economically, and socially mobile. Secondary towns therefore have great potential as vehicles for inclusive growth and poverty reduction in urbanizing developing countries. These are the insights emerging from the in-depth life history accounts of 75 purposively selected rural-urban migrants from rural Kagera, in Tanzania. 2017-09-21T20:47:38Z 2017-09-21T20:47:38Z 2017-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/788721505317450769/Why-secondary-towns-can-be-important-for-poverty-reduction-a-migrants-perspective http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28371 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8193 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Tanzania |
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POVERTY REDUCTION MIGRATION URBANIZATION JOBS SECONDARY TOWNS PERI-URBAN LIFE HISTORY RURAL LABOR MARKET Ingelaere, Bert Christiaensen, Luc De Weerdt, Joachim Kanbur, Ravi Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective |
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This paper develops the concept of
"action space" as the range of possible
destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a
given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set
of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this
space expands and contracts over time through
"cumulative causation." Such a dynamic framework
allows for appreciating the role of secondary towns in
rural-urban migration and poverty reduction. Secondary towns
occupy a unique middle ground between semi-subsistence
agriculture and the capitalistic city, between what is close
by and familiar and what is much further away and unknown.
By opening the horizons of the (poorer) rural population and
facilitating navigation of the nonfarm economy, secondary
towns allow a broader base of the poor population to become
physically, economically, and socially mobile. Secondary
towns therefore have great potential as vehicles for
inclusive growth and poverty reduction in urbanizing
developing countries. These are the insights emerging from
the in-depth life history accounts of 75 purposively
selected rural-urban migrants from rural Kagera, in Tanzania. |
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Working Paper |
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Ingelaere, Bert Christiaensen, Luc De Weerdt, Joachim Kanbur, Ravi |
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Ingelaere, Bert Christiaensen, Luc De Weerdt, Joachim Kanbur, Ravi |
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Ingelaere, Bert |
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective |
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective |
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective |
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective |
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective |
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why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction : a migrant's perspective |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/788721505317450769/Why-secondary-towns-can-be-important-for-poverty-reduction-a-migrants-perspective http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28371 |
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