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Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
Jedwab, Remi; Christiaensen, Luc; Gindelsky, Marina - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
Standard models explain urbanization by rural-urban migration in response to an (expected) urban-rural wage gap. The … agglomeration and providing further insights into the phenomenon of urbanization without growth. Both migra- tion and urban … demographics must be considered in debating urbanization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148635
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653365
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When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021
While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498058
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395706
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645027
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Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
Christiaensen, Luc - 2018
For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big … cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of … urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645260
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Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania
Christiaensen, Luc - 2018
For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big … cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of … urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927528
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Demography, Urbanization and Development : Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push?
Jedwab, Remi - 2017
Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural … developing countries? rapid urban growth and urbanization may also be linked to demographic factors, such as rapid internal urban … and displays strong associations with urban congestion, providing additional insight into the phenomenon of urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971521
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Poverty Reduction During the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
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/10012974402