Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation - The role of the missing middle

World Development

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 43-58

  Christiaensen, Luc ^a   Todo, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Poverty; Rural nonfarm economy; Rural urban transformation; Structural transformation; Urban concentration

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT; POVERTY; RURAL ECONOMY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84905018101     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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