Is there a metropolitan bias ? the inverse relationship between poverty and city size in selected developing countries
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- Céline Ferré & Francisco H.G. Ferreira & Peter Lanjouw, 2011. "Is there a metropolitan bias? The inverse relationship between poverty and city size in selected developing countries," Working Papers 192, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
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Keywords
Rural Poverty Reduction; Subnational Economic Development; City Development Strategies; Regional Economic Development;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2011-01-16 (Development)
- NEP-GEO-2011-01-16 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-LTV-2011-01-16 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-PBE-2011-01-16 (Public Economics)
- NEP-URE-2011-01-16 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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