Download This PaperUrban Economic Growth and Chronic Poverty
Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09
52 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2011
Date Written: September 1, 2006
Abstract
This paper draws on available urban panel literature, the 16 OPPG studies, and wider literature. It outlines the evidence for urban poverty-growth relationships in both contexts of economic growth and economic stagnation, before exploring in more depth the issues of urban fragility.
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