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    New evidence on the urbanization of global poverty

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    This report from the World Bank provides new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction.It finds that: one quarter of the world 's consumption poor live in urban areas, a proportion that has been rising over timeby fostering economic growth, urbanization hel