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Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle / Luc Christiaensen
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Christiaensen, Luc
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achieving Shared Growth.
- ICT Applications.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Regional Economic Development.
- Rural non-farm economy.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Rural-urban transformation.
- Structural transformation.
- Urban concentration.
- Urban Development.
- Local Subjects:
- Achieving Shared Growth.
- ICT Applications.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Regional Economic Development.
- Rural non-farm economy.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Rural-urban transformation.
- Structural transformation.
- Urban concentration.
- Urban Development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 pages)
- Other Title:
- Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2013
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- As countries develop, they restructure away from agriculture and urbanize. But structural transformation and urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm activities and secondary towns, and others undergoing rapid agglomeration in mega cities. Using cross-country panel data for developing countries spanning 1980-2004, the analysis in this paper finds that migration out of agriculture into the missing middle (the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns) yields more inclusive growth patterns and faster poverty reduction than agglomeration in mega cities. This suggests that patterns of urbanization deserve much more attention when striving for faster poverty reduction.
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