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Is there a metropolitan bias?: the inverse relationship between poverty and city size in selected Developing Countries [1]

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 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.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Cline Ferr [2], Francisco H.G. Ferreira [3], Peter Lanjouw [4]
The World Bank [5]
Tags:
Poverty [6], Urbanisation [7], Developing Countries [8], India [9], Children [10], Malnutrition [11]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/francisco-hg-ferreira
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/peter-lanjouw
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[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/malnutrition