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100 1  Christiaensen, Luc.
245 10 Where to Create Jobs : |bCities or Towns?. / |cLuc Christiaensen.
246    Where to Create Jobs
264  1 Washington, D.C. : |bThe World Bank, |c2017.
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490 1  Other papers
520 3  Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question the authors extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary town and big city. The authors first derive labor income, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an equilibrium phenomenon. The authors then develop sufficient statistics for the policy decisions based on these income parameters. The empirical remit of the model is illustrated with long running panel data from Kagera, Tanzania. Further, we show that the structure of the sufficient statistics is maintained in the case where the model is generalized to introduce heterogeneous workers and jobs.
650  4 City Development Strategies
650  4 Employment
650  4 Job Creation
650  4 Labor Markets
650  4 Labor Policies
650  4 National Urban Development Policies & Strategies
650  4 Poverty Reduction
650  4 Public Investment
650  4 Public Sector Development
650  4 Rural Urban Linkages
650  4 Social Protections and Labor
650  4 Urban Development
650  4 Urbanization
700 1  Christiaensen, Luc.
700 1  De Weerdt, Joachim.
700 1  Kanbur, Ravi.
830  0 Other papers
830  0 World Bank e-Library.
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