Les défis de l'urbanisation du monde - Euromedina

Poverty is becoming more urban over time (e.g. the urban share of the $1 a day poor is rising at
about 0.6% points per year over 1993=2002, though these findings hold up less well for the $2
day line.
On the whole, urbanization has played a positive role in overall poverty reduction by providing
new opportunities to rural migrants and through second-round impacts of urbanization for those
who remain in rural areas.
Future projections indicate increases in urban poverty, but globally the majority of the poor will still
be found rural areas for some decades to come (~2040 for the $1 per day line, ~2080 for the $2
per day line).
Source : Ravallion, Chen, Sangraula. New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty . World Bank Policy Research Working
Paper 4199, April 2007.