Rural Development and the Retention of the Rural Population in the Countryside of Developing Countries

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The article addresses jive central issues. First, it argues that the rate of rural migration is smaller than usually believed. Second, it shows that migrants normally gain from voluntary migration while losers are found principally among the urban populations that the migrants join. Third, the article explains that townward migration deprives the rural hinterland of dynamic young leaders, congests cities and leads to the inefficient and inequitable allocation of national resources. Fourth, rural-urban inequality is viewed as the most promosing target for corrective actions in order to curb townward migration. Fifth, the article discusses how policy towards the urban—rural balance should be affected given the special difficulties facing the L.D.C.s on the 1980s.

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