New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty (English)

This paper probes into the empirical roots of the debate as to whether poverty is now indeed mainly an urban problem. It aims to throw new light on the extent to which poverty is in fact urbanizing in the developing world and what role urbanization of the population has played in overall poverty reduction. The study reports its results in studying a new data set created for this paper, covering about 90 developing countries with observations over...

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Chen,Shaohua;

Ravillion, Martin;

Sangraula,Prem Prasad;
Document Date
2007/04/01
Document Type
Working Paper
Report Number
41376
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
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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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Chen,Shaohua; Ravillion, Martin; Sangraula,Prem Prasad.

New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/664201468313759881

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