economic impact.Yet if COVID-19 exacerbated and exposed the state’s poverty problems, it was not the cause of them. Even before …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several … conclusions can be drawn from this paper. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents … and poverty of migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural–urban income …