scholarly journals Educational choice, rural–urban migration and economic development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Ju Liao ◽  
Ping Wang ◽  
Yin-Chi Wang ◽  
Chong K. Yip
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Educational Choice ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

scholarly journals Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Ju Liao ◽  
Ping Wang ◽  
Yin-Chi Wang ◽  
Chong Kee Yip
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Educational Choice ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

scholarly journals Developing Small Towns as a Panacea to Poverty Reduction in Nigeria: A Focus on Itam And Ikot Ekpene in Akwaibom State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atelhe, George Atelhe ◽  
Akande, Benyin Adah ◽  
Peter Eyo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
High Level

Nigeria’s economic development has most times been centred on promoting the expansion and growth of major cities in the country, while relegating the small towns to the background. Much attention has not been placed on rehabilitating and providing better living conditions for inhabitants of small towns.  This has resulted in the continuous influx of goods and services into bigger cities, with the aim of finding greener pastures. This incidence invariably brings about overpopulation problems as encountered in these cities. Most of the poverty incidence experienced in Nigeria is often times situated in small towns where there are high level of income inequality and illiteracy. It is against this background the paper adopts a textual analysis to ascertain the rate of poverty incurred in small towns as a result of rural-urban migration. The paper also establishes the facts that developmental incentives in small towns is a panacea for equal development across the unit of the country. From the evidence in the paper, it is recommended that one way to reduce the poverty rate anchors on the need for government to ensure that measures for allocation of public investment across different sized urban agglomerations should be implemented selectively based on landmass so as to avoid over-crowding.  

REMITTANCE BEHAVIOUR OF OUT-MIGRATION IN ROHTAS DISTRICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (66) ◽  
pp. 15293-15303
Author(s):  
Shyam Krishna Jee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Group Factor ◽  
Population Geography ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Intact Human migration is an important area of research in Population Geography. It has been related to mankind from the very beginning of human life. During earlier days people used to move from one forest to another in search of food. The development of civilization helped people to keep animals and cultivated land. This led to the development of settlement. But at this stage also, people continued to move from one region to another in search of fertile land. In due course of time, the development of trade, industry and transport encouraged people to move from one area to another. These developments accelerated rural-urban migration which caused urbanization and industrialization. Remittances has also affected the migration level in this study remittance behaviour has been analysed. It affects the variable measuring economic development. In any economy, unbalanced regional development leads to internal migration. Moreover, globalization and liberalization generated system as well as flow of remittances. In present study remittance behaviour of out-migrants in state of Bihar and Rohtas district has been discussed. In this study age-group factor have been carved out according to remittance behaviour.

In Perspective: A Summing Up

2021 ◽  
pp. 385-410
Author(s):  
Robert E.B. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Transformation Potential ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

The cumulative findings are summarized under five cross-cutting themes: rural-urban migration and urbanization; the role of rural-urban migration in economic development; the incidence and nature of temporary moves; the consequences of gender imbalance in migration; and implications for the structure and well-being of families. Also included are reflections on the complex range of policies that shape internal migration and the lack of coordination in planning. The desirability of intent to limit rural-urban migration is doubted, given the inexorability of structural transformation, potential gains to moving, and continuing threat from climate change. Planning for managed urban growth, which remains in its infancy in many developing countries, is vital. A closing postscript portrays populations as trapped between declining rural opportunities as climate change proceeds and COVID centered in cities. It is too early to predict how the dynamics of the pandemic will evolve, but climate change will not likely be contained.

RURAL?URBAN MIGRATION IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabir C. Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Economics of Rural–Urban Migration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Ju Liao ◽  
Chong Kee Yip
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Relative Wage ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

In the past century, many developing countries have experienced rapid economic development, which is usually associated with a process of structural transformation and urbanization. Rural–urban migration, shifting the labor force from less productive agricultural sectors to more productive industrial sectors in cities, plays an important role in the growth process and thus has drawn economists’ attention. For instance, it is recognized that one of the important sources of China’s growth miracle is rural–urban migration. At the early stage of economic development, an economy usually relies on labor-intensive industries for growth. Rural–urban migrants thus provide the necessary labor force to urban production. Since they are more productive in industrial sectors than in agricultural sectors, aggregate output increases and economic growth accelerates. In addition, abundant migrants affect the rates of return to capital by changing the capital–labor ratio. They also change the skill composition of the urban labor force and hence the relative wage of skilled to unskilled workers. Therefore, rural–urban migration has wide impacts on growth and income distribution of the macroeconomy. What are the forces that drive rural–urban migration? It is well understood that cities attract rural migrants because of better job opportunities, better career prospects, and higher wages. Moreover, enjoying better social benefits such as better medical care in cities is another pull factor that initiates rural–urban migration. Finally, agricultural land scarcity in the countryside plays an important role on the push side for moving labor to cities. The aforementioned driving forces of rural–urban migration are work-based. However, rural–urban migration could be education-based, which is rarely discussed in the literature. In the past decade, it has been proposed that cities are the places for accumulating human capital in work. It is also well established that most of the high-quality education institutions (including universities and specialized schools for art and music) are located in urban areas. A youth may first move to the city to attend college and then stay there for work after graduation. From this point of view, work-based migration does not paint the whole picture of rural–urban migration. In this article, we propose a balanced view that both the work-based and education-based channels are important to rural–urban migration. The migration story could be misleading if any of them is ignored.

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