Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing … the 1983-1999 period, the authors find that urbanization has a substantial and systematic poverty-reducing effect in the … nature and is largely attributable to the positive spillovers of urbanization on the rural economy rather than to the …

Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing … the 1983–1999 period, we find that urbanization has a substantial and systematic poverty-reducing effect in the … nature and is largely attributable to the positive spillovers of urbanization on the rural economy rather than to the …