Arbeitspapier
Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
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 cities? What is the evidence for the contribution of secondary towns versus cities to poverty reduction? What are the economic mechanisms for such a differential contribution and how does policy interact with them? We find preliminary evidence and arguments in support of our hypothesis, but the impacts of policy on poverty are quite complex even in simple settings, and the question of secondary towns and poverty reduction is an open area for research and policy analysis.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10637
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Thema
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secondary towns
poverty reduction
mega cities
urbanization
rural-urban migration
Zipf's Law
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Christiaensen, Luc
Kanbur, Ravi
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Christiaensen, Luc
- Kanbur, Ravi
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2017
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