Is there a metropolitan bias? The relationship between poverty and city size in a selection of developing countries
| Autor: | Celine Ferre, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Economics, Tinbergen Institute |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Economics and Econometrics
unemployment inequality extreme poverty rural areas rural poverty reduction sanitation global poverty farmers Development Urban area poverty rates Accounting Development economics Economics rural population Extreme poverty geography geography.geographical_feature_category Poverty consumption expenditures poverty line rural phenomenon incidence of poverty Metropolitan area poor rural poverty income Rural poverty food consumers SDG 1 - No Poverty poverty reduction strategies rural Basic needs Rural area SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production Finance Slum |
| Zdroj: | World Bank Economic Review, 26(3):lhs007, 351-382. Oxford University Press Ferré, C, Ferreira, F H G & Lanjouw, P 2012, ' Is there a metropolitan bias? The relationship between poverty and city size in a selection of developing countries ', World Bank Economic Review, vol. 26, no. 3, lhs007, pp. 351-382 . https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhs007 |
| ISSN: | 0258-6770 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/wber/lhs007 |
| Popis: | This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic pattern is generally robust to the choice of poverty line. The paper shows, further, that for all eight countries, a majority of the urban poor live in medium, small or very small towns. Moreover, it is shown that the greater incidence and severity of consumption poverty in smaller towns is generally compounded by similarly greater deprivation in terms of access to basic infrastructure services, such as electricity, heating gas, sewerage and solid waste disposal. We illustrate for one country -- Morocco -- that inequality within large cities is not driven by a severe dichotomy between slum dwellers and others. Robustness checks are performed to assess whether the findings in the paper hinge on a specific definition of 'urban area'-- are driven by differences in the cost of living across city-size categories; by reliance on an income-based concept of well-being; or by the application of small-area estimation techniques for estimating poverty rates at the town and city level. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press. |
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