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, this paper extends 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 analysis first derives the labor income, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural...
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2017/05/22
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政策研究报告
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WPS8069
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2017/05/22
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Where to create jobs to reduce poverty : cities or towns ?
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model of labor migration