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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549958
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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; 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/10012484443
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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; 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/10012489741
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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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Urbanization and poverty reduction : the role of rural diversification and secondary towns
Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Todō, Yasuyuki - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009735493
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Urbanization and poverty reduction : the role of rural diversification and secondary towns
Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Todō, Yasuyuki - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 44 (2013) 4/5, pp. 435-447
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187516
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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486445
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From Corn to Popcorn? Urbanization and Food Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in Tanzania
Cockx, Lara - 2017
There is rising concern that the ongoing wave of urbanization will have profound effects on eating patterns and … increase the risk of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases. Yet, our understanding of urbanization as a driver of food … nutritional concern regarding the potential longer-term impacts of urbanization. Our results however also indicate that the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957285
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Urbanization and Poverty Reduction -- the Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
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/10012974458
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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