The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence and its implications for poverty-reduction strategies
The continuing debate about urban bias: the thesis, its critics, its influence and its implications for poverty-reduction strategies
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DOI：
10.1177/146499340901000101
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Corbridge, Stuart
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作者：
Jones, Gareth A.;Corbridge, Stuart
本文回顾了围绕“城市偏见”概念的争论现状。它首先回顾了迈克尔·利普顿最初提出的城市偏见论点(UBT)，以及围绕他的作品以及埃利奥特·伯格和罗伯特·贝茨的作品而形成的最初的辩论。然而，文章的主体部分考虑了罗伯特·伊斯特伍德和迈克尔·利普顿最近对UBT的修改，以及可以对其提出的四组反对意见。这些反对意见的核心是对流动性在构建城乡生计中的重要性的新描述，以及来自新经济地理学关于城镇经济优势的主张。文章最后简要回顾了关于“城市偏见”的持续辩论对公共政策和减贫战略的影响。
This article reviews the current state of the debate around the concept of 'urban bias'. It first reviews Michael Lipton's original formulation of an Urban Bias Thesis (UBT), and the initial debates that took shape in regard to his work and the work of Elliott Berg and Robert Bates. The main body of the article, however, considers a recent reworking of the UBT by Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton, and four sets of objections that can be raised against it. Central to these objections are new accounts of the importance of mobility in constructing rural-urban livelihoods and claims emanating from the 'new economic geography' about the economic advantages of towns and cities. The article concludes with a short review of the implication of the continuing debate on 'urban bias' for public policy and Poverty Reduction Strategies.