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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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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
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/10012960252
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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development agendas, and concludes with a call for a renewed vision of Latin American urban life. -- Latin America ; urbanization …
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This paper provides a quantitative analysis of how the changing dual economic structure and urbanization affect … — the paper asks three questions. First, how much of the past increase in inequality can be attributed to urbanization per … might urbanization affect these countries' inequality in the future as its process continues? Third, moving forward, what is …
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This paper provides a quantitative analysis of how the changing dual economic structure and urbanization affect … — the paper asks three questions. First, how much of the past increase in inequality can be attributed to urbanization per … might urbanization affect these countries' inequality in the future as its process continues? Third, moving forward, what is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024711
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of how the changing dual economic structure and urbanization affect …—the paper asks three questions. First, how much of the past increase in inequality can be attributed to urbanization per se … urbanization affect these countries’ inequality in the future as its process continues? Third, moving forward, what is the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009746
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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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