What is it about?
Urbanization is becoming the world’s mega-trend. Bearing in mind the disparities in the causes and effects of urbanization in developed and developing countries, this chapter examines the urban-urban income gap between the cities of the developed and developing countries.
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Why is it important?
Will the current trend in urbanization converge the incomes of the cities of developed and developing countries, or will it diverge the urban-urban income gap? Framed within stratification economics, this chapter aims to assess the impact of urbanization on poverty and global urban income inequality, by empirically estimating the current income inequality level among world cities and its projected evolution.
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When I was writing this article I remembered how Plato’s world of city-states is evolving to a world of state-cities, with unprecedented rates of worldwide urbanization. Unfortunately, income distribution among the world's cities is diverging rather than converging.
Prof. Heba Ezzeldin Helmy
October University for Modern Sciences and Arts
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This page is a summary of: Cities and development, November 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing,
DOI: 10.4337/9781839109959.00019.
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