Rural-Urban Dimensions of Inequality Change

Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton

No wp-2000-200, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: For developing and transitional countries we explore trends in rural-urban, intrarural and intraurban inequality of income, poverty risk, health and education. In particular, we ask whether behind generally rising inequality post-1980 lie offsetting inter and intrasectoral trends, with narrowing rural-urban gaps - perhaps due to adjustment - being more than offset by rising intrasectoral inequality. Our main finding is that there is no such pattern.

Keywords: Consumption; Equality and inequality; Life expectancy; Poverty; Urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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