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On the Urbanization of Poverty

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...

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Main Author:	Ravallion, Martin
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AVAILABLE DATA CAPITAL ACCOUNT COUNTRY DATA DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC REVIEW EMPIRICAL RESULTS ERROR TERM EXTERNAL TRADE GROWTH RATE HEALTH INSURANCE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INEQUALITY LABOR MARKET MARGINAL PRODUCT NATIONAL POVERTY POLICY INSTRUMENTS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR LIVING POOR POPULATION POPULATION SHARE POVERTY LINES POVERTY POLICY POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC HEALTH RELATIVE WAGE RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SECTORAL COMPOSITION SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS SPILLOVERS STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TRADE POLICY UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN URBAN AREAS URBAN ECONOMY URBAN LABOR URBAN MIGRATION URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN SECTOR URBANIZATION URBANIZATION OF POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/04/1121144/urbanization-poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19681

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/04/1121144/urbanization-poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19681