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International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution pp 485–504Cite as

Population Distribution and Poverty

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Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Population ((IHOP,volume 6))

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The goal of this chapter is to analyze the relationship between population distribution and poverty. We examine recent research on the subject, including a review of the range of approaches to measuring poverty, the literature on rural and urban poverty, the interdependencies between the two and the policy implications of our findings. Our findings indicate that the measurement of poverty may take many forms, including relative and absolute measures, consumption based measures, resource deprivation measures and measures of social exclusion. Rural poverty, particularly in developing nations, tends to be directly influenced by the processes of globalization and development. The rural poor tend to often seek a better life through migration to places of economic opportunity, particularly to cities. Urban poverty, particularly in North American and European cities, tends to disproportionately impact recent immigrant populations and/or racial minorities. We conclude that the long-standing division of research between urban and rural poverty would be enhanced by the development of alternative approaches that challenge the rural/urban divide. We also suggest that future research into poverty accounts for not only the distribution of the poorest populations, but the spatial distribution of the affluent as well.

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Dwyer, R.E., Sanchez, D. (2016). Population Distribution and Poverty. In: White, M. (eds) International Handbook of Migration and Population Distribution. International Handbooks of Population, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7282-2_22

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