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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Christiaensen, Luc - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960252

Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda

Christiaensen, Luc - 2018

This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment toward 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/10012935162

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 …

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Poverty Reduction During the Rural-Urban Transformation : The Role of the Missing Middle

Christiaensen, Luc - 2017

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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction -- the Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns

Christiaensen, Luc - 2017

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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 …

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