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Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments in...
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In comparison to other African countries, Ethiopia has a low urbanization rate. According to the World Bank World … Development Report (WDR) 2009, Sub-Sahara Africa is 30% urbanized, whereas Ethiopia is only 10.9% urbanized. Urbanization rates … Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia reports a 16% urbanization rate. In an effort to standardize and measure Ethiopian …
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"It has been argued in the literature that China is underurbanized in large part because of restrictions on migration. While the presence of migration barriers can help explain why existing cities fail to achieve their optimal size, it cannot explain the lack of cities. Although migration has...
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"Rising per capita income, urbanization and globalization are changing the consumption basket in the developing …
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, such as Asia and Africa. The pattern in developing Asia is characterized by fast growth and slow urbanization, primarily as … slow growth with rapid urbanization stemming from urban-biased policies, low rural population density, and high rates of … population growth. But whereas Africa's path of urbanization without growth presents problems like unemployment, congestion, and …
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examine inequality changes associated with urbanization and educational expansion in Indonesia from 1996 to 2002, using …
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policy, infrastructure development (especially markets and roads), urbanization and technological improvements. Rainfed areas …
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This study uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques to estimate urbanization rates in Ethiopia, using a … areas. Defining the minimum population of an urban area as 50,000, the urbanization rate has risen from only 3.7 percent in …
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Almost two decades have passed since China first enacted legislation to protect farmland from conversion to nonagricultural use. Yet hundreds of thousands of hectares of agricultural land are still developed to urban area each year, raising the question of whether the legislation is effective in...
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