New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty

The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world's consumption poor live in urban areas and that the proporti...

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Main Authors: Ravallion, Martin, Chen, Shaohua, Sangraula, Prem
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9177