This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size …. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic … pattern is generally robust to choice of poverty line. The paper shows, further, that for all eight countries, a majority of …

This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and … income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …

The authors employ the recently completed "poverty map" for Morocco, referring to the year 2004, as a tool for an ex …-ante evaluation of the distributional incidence of geographic targeting of public resources. They simulate the impact on poverty of … transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined sub-groups of the population according to their relative poverty …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …