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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Main Authors:	Christiaensen, Luc, Kanbur, Ravi
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	towns poverty reduction mega cities urbanization rural-urban migration Zipf's Law
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/721621479913777692/Secondary-towns-and-poverty-reduction-refocusing-the-urbanization-agenda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25698

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spelling	okr-10986-256982021-06-08T14:42:46Z Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda Christiaensen, Luc Kanbur, Ravi towns poverty reduction mega cities urbanization rural-urban migration Zipf's Law 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. 2016-12-06T23:31:41Z 2016-12-06T23:31:41Z 2016-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/721621479913777692/Secondary-towns-and-poverty-reduction-refocusing-the-urbanization-agenda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25698 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7895 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	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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author	Christiaensen, Luc Kanbur, Ravi
author_facet	Christiaensen, Luc Kanbur, Ravi
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title	Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
title_short	Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
title_full	Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
title_fullStr	Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
title_full_unstemmed	Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
title_sort	secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/721621479913777692/Secondary-towns-and-poverty-reduction-refocusing-the-urbanization-agenda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25698
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

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