Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment toward secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is th...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/721621479913777692/Secondary-towns-and-poverty-reduction-refocusing-the-urbanization-agenda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25698 |
| Summary: | This review is framed around the
exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public
investment toward secondary towns from big cities will
improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the
hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the
dichotomy of secondary towns versus big cities? What is the
evidence for the contribution of secondary towns versus
cities to poverty reduction? What are the economic
mechanisms for such a differential contribution and how does
policy interact with them? The review finds preliminary
evidence and arguments in support of the hypothesis, but the
impacts of policy on poverty are quite complex even in
simple settings, and the question of secondary towns and
poverty reduction is an open area for research and policy analysis. |
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