全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12193 Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12193
	DP12193 Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction – A Migrant’s Perspective
	Ravi Kanbur; Luc Christiaensen; Bert Ingelaere; Joachim De Weerdt
发表日期	2017-07-31
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	This paper develops the concept of ‘action space’ as the range of possible destinations a migrant can realistically move to at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. We show how this space expands and contracts over time through “cumulative causation”. Such a dynamic framework allows us to appreciate 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 up the horizons of the (poorer) rural population and facilitating navigation of the non-farm 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 in-depth life history accounts of 75 purposively selected rural-urban migrants from rural Kagera, in Tanzania.
主题	Development Economics
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12193
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541004
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ravi Kanbur,Luc Christiaensen,Bert Ingelaere,等. DP12193 Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction – A Migrant’s Perspective. 2017.