Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

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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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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