, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …

In this paper, I show that the trend in spatial inequality in Mozambique almost entirely explains the outstanding surge … in inequality in the country over the past decade, as well as its decline immediately after the pandemic, in contrast to … its secondary role in the earliest years. For this analysis, I use an innovative regression-based decomposition framework …