Where to create jobs to reduce poverty : cities or towns ? (English)

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question, this paper extends the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary town and big city. The analysis first derives the labor income, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural...

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Christiaensen,Luc;

De Weerdt,Joachim;

Kanbur,Ravi;
Document Date
2017/05/22
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8069
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Tanzania,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2017/05/22
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Where to create jobs to reduce poverty : cities or towns ?
Keywords
model of labor migration

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Christiaensen,Luc; De Weerdt,Joachim; Kanbur,Ravi.

Where to create jobs to reduce poverty : cities or towns ? (English). Paper is funded by the Strategic Research Program (SRP)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8069 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/434811495466355613

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