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 countries and time-series data for for India are consistent with the expected theoretical relationship. The empirical results imply that the poor urbanize faster than the population as a whole. But the experience across developing countries suggests that a majority of the poor will still live in rural areas long after most people in the developing world live in urban areas.
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Document Date
2001/04/30
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Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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Report Number
WPS2586
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Volume No
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Doc Name
On the urbanization of poverty
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Keywords
Urbanization; Urban population; Urban poverty; Cross country analysis; Rural poverty
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Ravallion,Martin
On the urbanization of poverty (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2586 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/577771468739538398/On-the-urbanization-of-poverty