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Biblioteca On the Urbanization of Poverty

On the Urbanization of Poverty

On the Urbanization of Poverty

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Date of publication
Agosto 2014
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oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/19681

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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Ravallion, Martin

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