Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction: A Migrant’s Perspective

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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction: A Migrant’s Perspective

dc.contributor.author	Ingelaere, Bert
dc.contributor.author	Christiaensen, Luc
dc.contributor.author	De Weerdt, Joachim
dc.contributor.author	Kanbur, Ravi
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-27T22:22:22Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-27T22:22:22Z
dc.date.issued	2018-02-13
dc.description.abstract	This paper develops the concept of ‘action space’ as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time through ‘cumulative causation.’ Such a dynamic framework allows for appreciating the role of secondary towns in rural-urban migration and poverty reduction. Secondary towns occupy a unique middle ground between semi-subsistence agriculture and the capitalistic city, between what is close by and familiar and what is much further away and unknown. By opening the horizons of the (poorer) rural population and facilitating navigation of the nonfarm economy, secondary towns allow a broader base of the poor population to become physically, economically, and socially mobile. Secondary towns therefore have great potential as vehicles for inclusive growth and poverty reduction in urbanizing developing countries. These are the insights emerging from the in-depth life history accounts of 75 purposively selected rural-urban migrants from rural Kagera, in Tanzania.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667501518769513038/Why-secondary-towns-Can-Be-important-for-poverty-reduction-a-migrant-s-perspective
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/29391
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29391
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Jobs Working Paper,no. 12;
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	MIGRATION
dc.subject	URBANIZATION
dc.subject	POVERTY
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	JOB CREATION
dc.subject	JOBS
dc.subject	SECONDARY TOWN
dc.subject	LIFE HISTORY
dc.subject	MIGRANT LABOR
dc.title	Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction	en
dc.title.subtitle	A Migrant’s Perspective	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.crossref.title	Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction
okr.date.disclosure	2018-02-16
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667501518769513038/Why-secondary-towns-Can-Be-important-for-poverty-reduction-a-migrant-s-perspective
okr.guid	667501518769513038
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/29391
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okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Migration and Development
okr.topic	Rural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topic	Urban Development::Rural Urban Linkages
okr.unit	JOBS- CCSA - IBRD (GPSJB)
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