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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction : The Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns / Luc Christiaensen
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Christiaensen, Luc
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achieving Shared Growth.
- Population Policies.
- 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.
- Population Policies.
- 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 (37 pages)
- Other Title:
- Urbanization and Poverty Reduction
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2013
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only one in seven exited poverty by migrating to a large city, although those moving to a city experienced on average faster consumption growth. Further analysis of a much larger cross-country panel of 51 developing countries cannot reject that rural diversification and secondary town development lead to more inclusive growth patterns than metropolitization. Indications are that this follows because more of the poor find their way to the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns, than to distant cities. The development discourse would benefit from shifting beyond the rural-urban dichotomy and focusing instead more on how best to urbanize and develop the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns.
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