Ravallion, Martin2014-08-262014-08-262001-04https://hdl.handle.net/10986/19681The author identifies conditions under which the urban sector's share of the poor population in a developing country will be a strictly increasing and strictly convex function of its share of the total population. Cross-sectional data afor 39 countries and time-series data for for India are consistent with the expected theoretical relationship. The empirical results imply that the poor urbanize faster than the population as a whole. But the experience across developing countries suggests that a majority of the poor will still live in rural areas long after most people in the developing world live in urban areas.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOAVAILABLE DATACAPITAL ACCOUNTCOUNTRY DATADATA SETDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPING WORLDDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT INDICATORSDEVELOPMENT RESEARCHECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC REFORMSECONOMIC REVIEWEMPIRICAL RESULTSERROR TERMEXTERNAL TRADEGROWTH RATEHEALTH INSURANCEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHUMAN CAPITALINCOMEINEQUALITYLABOR MARKETMARGINAL PRODUCTNATIONAL POVERTYPOLICY INSTRUMENTSPOLICY RESEARCHPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOOR LIVINGPOOR POPULATIONPOPULATION SHAREPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY POLICYPOVERTY PROFILEPOVERTY RATEPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPUBLIC HEALTHRELATIVE WAGERURAL AREASRURAL POVERTYSECTORAL COMPOSITIONSETTLEMENT SYSTEMSSPILLOVERSSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENTTRADE POLICYUNEMPLOYMENTURBANURBAN AREASURBAN ECONOMYURBAN LABORURBAN MIGRATIONURBAN POPULATIONURBAN POVERTYURBAN SECTORURBANIZATIONURBANIZATION OF POVERTY10.1596/1813-9450-2586