@article{Christiaensen:161446,
      recid = {161446},
      author = {Christiaensen, Luc and De Weerdt, Joachim and Todo,  Yasuyuki},
      title = {Urbanization and Poverty Reduction –  The Role of Rural  Diversification and Secondary Towns},
      address = {2013},
      number = {309-2016-5193},
      pages = {36},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {A rather unique panel tracking more than 3300 individuals  from households in rural Kagera, Tanzania during  1991/4-2010 shows that about 1 out of 2  individuals/households who exited poverty did so by  transitioning out of agriculture into the rural nonfarm  economy or secondary towns. Only 1 out of 7 exited poverty  by migrating to the big cities, even though those moving to  the city experienced on average faster consumption growth.  Further analysis of a much larger cross-country panel of 51  developing countries cannot reject that rural  diversification and secondary town development lead to more  inclusive growth patterns than metropolitization.  Indications are that this follows because more of the poor  find their way to the rural nonfarm economy and secondary  towns, than to distant cities. The development discourse  would benefit from shifting beyond the rural-urban  dichotomy and focusing more instead on how best to urbanize  and develop its rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/161446},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.161446},
}