At the moment when looking at extreme poverty around the world, it’s usually seen as a rural problem because the majority of poor people are living in rural areas. But tens of millions of those people are moving into urban areas every year, and over the next generation a tipping point will be reached and majority of extremely poor people will be living in cities in developing countries rather than living in rural areas.
*Professor David Hulme is Head, Institute for Policy Development and Management (IDPM) and Executive Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, England.
