Rural-urban Migration and Economic Growth in Developing Countries

IDS Bulletin, 1997

I Introduction It is often argued that migrants from rural areas form only a small part of current developing coun-tries' urban population growth. Still, they consti-tute a significant group for the cities' economies, and, possibly, for poverty reduction policies. And urbanisation is ...

2018

Rural to urban migration in the Indian context is not exceptionally high if we consider the aggregate rates for all urban areas. However, when it comes to large cities, the rates tend to be higher. In relation to urbanization findings suggest that as the percentage of population residing in urban areas rises, the greater is the decline in the unemployment rate after migration in comparison to the rate that prevailed prior to migration. States with higher urbanization levels reveal a larger increase in regular wage employment after migration. The migration rate in urban areas and the urbanization level are positively associated – very moderately though. With an increase in city size, the migration rate rises mainly because employment prospects are better in large cities due to agglomeration effects. The share of regular wage employment is highest in the million-plus cities and the least in smaller cities, whereas casual employment and selfemployment follow just the opposite pattern. ...

Springer eBooks, 2019

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1999

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478), 2020

The study examined the effects of rural-urban migration on the economic status of rural residents. The study utilized a mixed-methods research approach to collect and analyze data, first, data were collected through a questionnaire from households whose family members migrated to urban centers, and interviews were held with various heads of villages in the study area. The study reveals that the majority of the migrants were able-bodied youth who migrated to urban centers to seek employment and education. Migrants’ families at places of origin benefited from migration of their own relations to urban centers mainly through remittances which enabled them to improve their livelihood as the remittances were spent on daily consumption and investment into business activities. The study recommends that government should formulate policies that would create employment for citizens in rural areas, and encourage the private sector to build industries in rural areas to prevent rural-urban migra...

Abdella Mohammed Ahmed (M.Sc.), 2024

Chapter-Three 3. Rural-Urban Interaction, Migration, and Unemployment 3.1 The Migration and Urbanization Dilemma We focus on one of the most perplexing(confusing)dilemmas of the development process: the phenomenon of massive and historically unprecedented movements of people from the rural countryside to the cities of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. By 2050, world population could reach 9.4 billion people, and nowhere will population growth be more dramatic than in the major cities of the developing world. After reviewing trends and prospects for overall urban population growth, we examine the

The Pakistan Development Review, 1985

We develop an empirical model of the interaction of rural fertility and rural urban migration which incorporates the effects of landholding patterns. Cross section data for 26 developing countries are used to test the model. The statistical results support the hypothesis of a positive relationship between fertility and out-migration in the rural sector and lend credence to some of the propositions regarding the impact of landholding patterns. A reduced form of the model is derived from the statistical results, and its policy implications are considered.

2021

Rural urban migration is an important aspect towards the process of urbanization and development and therefore has been a topic of interest and debate for many economists for several decades. As a result, there exists a vast and diverse literature empirical and theoretical on the causes, consequences and therefore policy considerations and implications of rural urban migration. In this paper a few of the empirical observations are incorporated in a general equilibrium model based on Harris Todaro (1970) and Melitz (2003) to make it more realistically relevant. Later the effect a usual policy of rural wage subsidy is observed in the new model.

The world is urbanizing. Currently, the world’s population is in the middle of the largest human migration ever seen: from rural areas into the city. This paper contributes to the knowledge of this ubiquitous and highly complex event. The path that urbanization in Sub-Saharan African countries is following can be classified as non traditional and atypical. Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa, similar to traditionally urbanizing countries, depends mainly on economic incentives, namely on income inequalities between rural and urban areas. The difference is that, instead of being led by industrialization, rural-urban migration in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly pulled by the service sector. Besides economic incentives, other factors enhance rural-urban migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, mainly driven by people looking for improved living standards. These determinants consist of access to improved sanitation facilities and water sources, health and education factors and destabilizing factors such as war and ethnic conflict, drought and famine, and undernourishment.

2014

Internal migration is a key mechanism for the adjustment of regional economies, particularly when other devices proven fail.However, these processes have a highly factors of that specification complex economic, social, demographics, environmental, etc. Importance of internal migration, the 2009 World Development Report highlights that successfully economies are those that have the high density, mobility and integration.Migration is common element in most societies of population growth, so the scale of movements in developing countries is that the urban population may have the undesirable effects on poverty and development. Migration has come to consider rural-urban migration as a "major factor that contributed to these phenomenon in any urban and the excess of labor force directly exacerbate the unemployment problems in the city is serious" .Beyond the cross-border migration, internal migration, especially from rural to urban areas has been a key driver in the economic dev...