New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty (English)

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...

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Ravallion,Martin;

Chen,Shaohua;

Sangraula,Prem Prasad;
Document Date
2007/04/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS4199
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty
Keywords
average rate of poverty reduction

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Ravallion,Martin; Chen,Shaohua; Sangraula,Prem Prasad.

New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 4199 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/371511468314708097

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