Cities, Towns, and Poverty: Migration Equilibrium and Income Distribution in a Todaro-type Model with Multiple Destinations
Published By: LICOS on eSS | Published Date: April, 12 , 2017Should 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 basic Todaro-type
model of rural-urban migration is extended to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential
destinations, secondary town and big city. The findings confirm that given migration responses, national poverty outcomes are not immune
to whether urban employment generation takes place in the towns or the city. [LICOS Discussion Paper Series 395].
Author(s): Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur | Posted on: Aug 01, 2017 | Views() | Download (336)