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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631514
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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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Urbanization and Inequality in Asia
Kanbur, Ravi; Zhuang, Juzhong - In: Asian Development Review 30 (2013) 1, pp. 131-147
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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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828337
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280244
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Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction: Methodology and application to Tanzania
Christiaensen, Luc J.; De Weerdt, Joachim; Kanbur, Ravi - 2018
In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029850
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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