Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania

For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of urban...

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Main Authors:	Christiaensen, Luc, De Weerdt, Joachim, Ingelaere, Bert, Kanbur, Ravi
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	MIGRATION URBANIZATION SECONDARY TOWN SECONDARY CITIES JOBS POVERTY LIFE HISTORY LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/613771518633294230/Migrants-towns-poverty-and-jobs-insights-from-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29374

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spelling	okr-10986-293742021-06-08T14:42:48Z Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania Christiaensen, Luc De Weerdt, Joachim Ingelaere, Bert Kanbur, Ravi MIGRATION URBANIZATION SECONDARY TOWN SECONDARY CITIES JOBS POVERTY LIFE HISTORY LABOR MARKET For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania. It starts from the observation that migration to towns contributed much more to poverty reduction than migration to cities because many more (poor) rural migrants ended up in Tanzania's towns than its cities, despite larger welfare gains from moving to the city. Drawing on the findings from a series of studies, looking at this from different angles (theoretical and empirical, quantitative and qualitative), the paper shows how towns are better at enabling the rural poor to access off-farm employment and exit poverty because they are more nearby. It concludes with a call for greater consideration of the role of towns in accelerating Africa's poverty reduction. 2018-02-16T21:44:07Z 2018-02-16T21:44:07Z 2018-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/613771518633294230/Migrants-towns-poverty-and-jobs-insights-from-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29374 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8340 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 Tanzania
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description	For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania. It starts from the observation that migration to towns contributed much more to poverty reduction than migration to cities because many more (poor) rural migrants ended up in Tanzania's towns than its cities, despite larger welfare gains from moving to the city. Drawing on the findings from a series of studies, looking at this from different angles (theoretical and empirical, quantitative and qualitative), the paper shows how towns are better at enabling the rural poor to access off-farm employment and exit poverty because they are more nearby. It concludes with a call for greater consideration of the role of towns in accelerating Africa's poverty reduction.
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author	Christiaensen, Luc De Weerdt, Joachim Ingelaere, Bert Kanbur, Ravi
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title	Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
title_short	Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
title_full	Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
title_fullStr	Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed	Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
title_sort	migrants, towns, poverty and jobs : insights from tanzania
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
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