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New Evidence On the Urbanization of Global Poverty / Sangraula, Prem
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Sangraula, Prem
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Absolute Poverty.
- Agricultural Production.
- Economic Growth.
- Global Poverty.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Income.
- International Poverty Lines.
- Local Poverty Lines.
- Measures.
- National Poverty.
- Poor.
- Poor Living.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty Assessments.
- Poverty Incidence.
- Poverty Measures.
- Poverty Profile.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural.
- Rural Areas.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty.
- Rural Poverty Lines.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Local Subjects:
- Absolute Poverty.
- Agricultural Production.
- Economic Growth.
- Global Poverty.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Income.
- International Poverty Lines.
- Local Poverty Lines.
- Measures.
- National Poverty.
- Poor.
- Poor Living.
- Population Policies.
- Poverty Assessments.
- Poverty Incidence.
- Poverty Measures.
- Poverty Profile.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural.
- Rural Areas.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Poverty.
- Rural Poverty Lines.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2007
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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 1993-2002, the count of the "USD 1 a day" poor fell by 150 million in rural areas but rose by 50 million in urban areas. The poor have been urbanizing even more rapidly than the population as a whole. Looking forward, the recent pace of urbanization and current forecasts for urban population growth imply that a majority of the poor will still live in rural areas for many decades to come. There are marked regional differences: Latin America has the most urbanized poverty problem, East Asia has the least; there has been a "ruralization" of poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; in marked contrast to other regions, Africa's urbanization process has not been associated with falling overall poverty.
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