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Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
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Growth, urbanization and poverty reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin; Murgai, Rinku - 2016
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Cash in the city : emerging lessons from implementing cash transfers in urban Africa
Gentilini, Ugo; Khosla, Saksham; Almenfi, Mohamed; … - 2021
Poverty and crises are rapidly “urbanizing†. Yet experience with operationalizing cash transfers in urban areas is limited. This paper captures early lessons from a new generation of urban cash transfer responses to Covid-19 in eleven African countries. The analysis contextualizes...
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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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Urbanization and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from dynamic panel data analysis of selected urbanizing countries
Ahimah-Agyakwah, Solomon; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-27
Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is generally highlighted as a puzzle that deviates from the stylized facts in …-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in …
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Urban and peri-urban agriculture as a livelihood strategy of internally displaced persons in Khartoum
Streiffeler, Friedhelm; Makki, Elsamawal Khalil; Ayoub, … - 2008
Urban agriculture is a very important activity of refugees although it has not been in the focus of research as today. This research was done in the region of greater Khartoum in the Sudan which was the destination of migration of 5 million people in the last 25 years coming in cause of...
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The impact of urbanization on poverty reduction : an evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen Minh Ha; Nguyen Dang Le; Pham, Trung-Kien - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14
developed countries. In Vietnam, the poverty rate has been decreasing while the urbanization has happened rapidly over the past … 20 years. Handling the dual problems of urbanization and poverty is important to be able to attain sustainable … development. Therefore, this study is to analyze the impact of urbanization on poverty reduction in Vietnam. Using Driscoll and …
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The effect of economic growth and urbanization on poverty reduction in Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen; Nguyen Chau Van; Nguyen Van Cong - In: Journal of Asian finance, economics and business : JAFEB 7 (2020) 7, pp. 229-239
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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 - 2018
In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration...
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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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