Urbanization and Poverty Reduction : The Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns

• Tác giả: Joachim De Weerdt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 347.12 Civil procedure and courts
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 315875
• Chủ đề: 1. ABSOLUTE TERMS; 2. ACCESS TO INFORMATION; 3. ACCESS TO SERVICES; 4. AGGREGATE INCOME; 5. AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Tóm tắt

A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during 1991/4-2010 shows that about one in two individuals/households who exited poverty did so by transitioning from agriculture into the rural nonfarm economy or secondary towns. Only one in seven exited poverty by migrating to a large city, although those moving to a city experienced on average faster consumption growth. Further analysis of a much larger cross-country panel of 51 developing countries cannot reject that rural diversification and secondary town development lead to more inclusive growth patterns than metropolitization. Indications are that this follows because more of the poor find their way to the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns, than to distant cities. The development discourse would benefit from shifting beyond the rural-urban dichotomy and focusing instead more on how best to urbanize and develop the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns.