For India's Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More than Growing Cities

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For India's Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More than Growing Cities

dc.contributor.author	Gibson, John
dc.contributor.author	Datt, Gaurav
dc.contributor.author	Murgai, Rinku
dc.contributor.author	Ravallion, Martin
dc.date.accessioned	2017-03-08T21:25:31Z
dc.date.available	2017-03-08T21:25:31Z
dc.date.issued	2017-03
dc.description.abstract	It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction, noting that data deficiencies have made this a difficult question to answer previously. Satellite observations of night lights are used to measure urban growth on the extensive and intensive margins in the context of a spatial Durbin fixed-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of light from urban areas. For India's current stage of development, growth of secondary towns may do more to reduce rural poverty than big city growth, although the theoretical model suggests that cities may eventually take over from towns as the drivers of rural poverty reduction.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/903311488807371325/For-Indias-rural-poor-growing-towns-matter-more-than-growing-cities
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-7994
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26244
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7994
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	cities
dc.subject	towns
dc.subject	rural poverty
dc.subject	luminosity
dc.subject	spatial economics
dc.subject	spatial Durban model
dc.title	For India's Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More than Growing Cities	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.date.disclosure	2017-03-06
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okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	India
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okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Spatial and Local Economic Development
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Peri-Urban Communities
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Development Patterns and Poverty
okr.topic	Rural Development::Rural Development Strategy & Policy
okr.topic	Urban Development::National Urban Development Policies & Strategies
okr.topic	Urban Development::Regional Urban Development
okr.topic	Urban Development::Rural Urban Linkages
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Economic Development
okr.unit	Poverty and Equity Global Practice Group
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