New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
Top Cited Papers
Open Access
- 7 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Population and Development Review
- Vol. 33 (4) , 667-701
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2007.00193.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and ... Convergence, PeriodThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006
- Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000The World Bank Economic Review, 2005
- How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?The World Bank Research Observer, 2004
- Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820–1992American Economic Review, 2002
- How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s?Review of Income and Wealth, 2001
- Urban Growth in Developing Countries: A Review of Projections and PredictionsPopulation and Development Review, 1999
- The Poverty of Cities in Developing RegionsPopulation and Development Review, 1998
- QUANTIFYING ABSOLUTE POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLDReview of Income and Wealth, 1991
- Measuring Changes in Poverty: A Methodological Case Study of Indonesia during an Adjustment PeriodThe World Bank Economic Review, 1991
- On the Measurement of PovertyEconometrica, 1987