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Inclusive growth in the face of increasing urbanization : what experience for African countries?
Ngounou, Borice Augustin; Tekam Oumbé, Honoré; Nkoa, … - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 28 (2024) 1, pp. 34-70
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Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction : methodology and application to Tanzania
Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Kanbur, Ravi - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 12, pp. 978-982
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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction : The Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns
Christiaensen, Luc - 2013
A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only one in...
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Poverty Reduction during the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle
Christiaensen, Luc - 2013
urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm … than agglomeration in mega cities. This suggests that patterns of urbanization deserve much more attention when striving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395729
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Sustaining food security in the developing world : the top five policy challenges
Pingali, Prabhu L. - In: Quarterly journal of international agriculture 42 (2003) 3, pp. 261-272
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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Urbanization, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction in Rwanda
World Bank Group - 2017
This note analyzes whether and how the country's rising urbanization levels (measured primarily by population density …
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective
Ingelaere, Bert - 2018
This paper develops the concept of 'action space' as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time...
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The Face of Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh : Explaining the Slum Development Initiatives in the light of Global Experiences
Panday, Pranab Kumar - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Theoretical Debates on Urbanization and Urban Poverty -- Chapter Three …: Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh -- Chapter Four: Formation of Slums and Slum Upgradation Initiatives in Bangladesh …The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in …
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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction - A Migrant's Perspective
Ingelaere, Bert - 2017
This paper develops the concept of "action space" as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245722
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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991,...
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