Where to Create Jobs to Reduce Poverty : Cities or Towns?

Where to Create Jobs to Reduce Poverty : Cities or Towns?

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question, this paper extends the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration...

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Main Authors: Christiaensen, Luc, De Weerdt, Joachim, Kanbur, Ravi
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
BIG CITIES
TOWNS
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY GRADIENT
TODARO MODEL
MIGRATION EQUILIBRIUM
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/434811495466355613/Where-to-create-jobs-to-reduce-poverty-cities-or-towns
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26839

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/434811495466355613/Where-to-create-jobs-to-reduce-poverty-cities-or-towns
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26839

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