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New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
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One‐quarter of the world's consumption poor live in urban areas, and that proportion has been rising over time. Over 1993–2002, the count of the “$1 a day” poor fell by 150 million in rural areas but rose by 50 million in urban areas. The poor have been urbanizing even more rapidly than the population as a whole. By fostering economic growth, urbanization helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate. There are marked regional differences: Latin America has the most urbanized poverty problem, East Asia has the least; there has been a “ruralization” of poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; in marked contrast to other regions, Africa's urbanization process has not been associated with falling overall poverty.
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- Authors
- Ravallion, M., Chen, S., & Sangraula, P.
- Venue
- Population and Development Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-12
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 667-701
- ISSN
- 0098-7921 (ISSN-L)
- 1728-4457
- OpenAlex
- W3123061466
- Cited by
- 510
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 76.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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