Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
By D. Sahn, David Stifel. 2003
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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies
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In Safety Research
- Ronelle Burger
- M. V. Maltitz
- Stefan Dercon
- Emanuela Colombo
- F. Booysen
- Stefano Mandelli
- S. van der Berg
- Gideon Du Rand
In Sociology and Political Science
- Ronelle Burger
- Somik V. Lall
- M. V. Maltitz
- Mingshu Wang
- Stefan Dercon
- Emanuela Colombo
- F. Booysen
- Stefano Mandelli
In Urban Studies
- Somik V. Lall
- Stefan Dercon
- Emanuela Colombo
- Stefano Mandelli
- Jan K. Brueckner
- L. Mattarolo
- Xianjin Huang
- J. Barbieri
Citations in the corpus
- Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing (2015, background): “3See Sahn and Stifel (2003) and Anderson and Pomfret (2005).”
- Rural Poverty (2009, background): “Lack of convergence between rural and urban areas in a number of wealth indicators across 12 African countries is found in Sahn and Stifel (2003).”
- THE URBAN–RURAL INCOME GAP AND INEQUALITY IN CHINA (2007, unknown): “Note that some studies (e.g., Eastwood and Lipton 2000; Sahn and Stifel 2003) look directly at urban-rural gaps in levels of education, health, and other welfare-related variables.”
- Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries (2008, background): “…the distribution is the same as before the translation and thus the poverty measures still have meaning in a relative sense, enabling comparisons of the resulting estimates of the asset index across space or time, or also across urban and rural settings in our case (see also Sahn & Stifel, 2003).”
- Urbanization’s effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis (2020, background): “Developing countries commonly face the problem of a large urban-rural divide during the urbanization process, which has been recognized as one of those major differences between developing countries and developed ones (Fields, 1974; Sahn and Stifel, 2004).”
- Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, unknown): “see Sahn and Stifel (2003) , the welfare level of the urban population is generally higher than”
- Sustainable energy in Africa: A comprehensive data and policies review (2014, methodology): “Considering as representative of rural-urban disparity the comparison carried out by Sahn and Stifel [103] with 8 living standards indicators for 24 sub-Saharan African countries, it emerges that”