Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)

This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and remoteness from large metropolitan areas. It uses geographically referenced population data (from the Gridded Population of the World, version 3) to tabulate the distribution of populations in Latin America...

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Buys,Piet;

Chomitz,Kenneth M.;

Chambers,Thomas Timothy;
Document Date
2005/06/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS3634
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Latin America, Caribbean,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean
Keywords
Population Density

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Buys,Piet; Chomitz,Kenneth M.; Chambers,Thomas Timothy.

Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3634 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/417881468226751166

Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)

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