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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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Bibliographic Details
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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