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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...

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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

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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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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development

De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021

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Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the city

Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011

This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the 'fractured cities' perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview...

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Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction : a migrant perspective

Ingelaere, Bert; Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 105 (2018), pp. 273-282

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Migrants, towns, poverty, and jobs : insights from Tanzania

Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Ingelaere, Bert - In: The quality of growth in Africa, (pp. 398-420). 2019

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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century : Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City

Rodgers, Dennis (ed.); Beall, Jo (ed.); Kanbur, Ravi (ed.) - 2012

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin...

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Urbanization and (In)Formalization

Ghani, Ejaz - 2013

indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening … development analysis and development policy. Is the link between urbanization and formalization more complex than what had been … informality. The second core section turns to processes of urbanization and asks how these processes intersect with and interact …

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Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits : Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India's Informal Sector

Ghani, Ejaz - 2013

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

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