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New Evidence On The Urbanization of Global Poverty

The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world's consumption poor live in urban areas and that the proporti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sangraula, Prem
Other Authors: Ravallion, Martin, Chen, Shaohua
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2007
Subjects:
Poor Living
Income
Absolute Poverty
Poor
International Poverty Lines
Agricultural Production
Health, Nutrition And Population
Rural Development
Economic Growth
National Poverty
Rural Poverty Reduction
Poverty Reduction
Global Poverty
Measures
Local Poverty Lines
Population Policies
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world's consumption poor live in urban areas and that the proportion has been rising over time. By fostering economic growth, urbanization helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. Over 1993-2002, the count of the
Physical Description:48 p.

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