Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration

Buch

The purpose of this study is to present a new piece of conceptual work which analyzes rural-to-urban migration and, in the light of this conceptual work, to examine: (a) some of the migration-related evidence; (b) interactions between rural-to-urban migration and some other key variables; (c) relevant policy implications. The main focus of the study is the interactions between rural-to-urban migration of labour and a number of development variables - namely technological change in agricultural production, income distribution by size, distribution and level of unemployment, fertility behaviour - as well as some other variables. The study concludes by referring to the policy implications emanating from the analysis of these interactions. Perhaps the most striking conclusion emerging from the analysis is that in light of the various benefits and the not unfavourable side (net) effects (both private and social) generated by rural-tourban migration, some of the most frequently expressed concerns accompanying it are groundless. Moreover, many of the policy recommendations prescribed to reduce or eliminate it are unnecessary, irrelevant and unlikely to be effective. The study is organized around an explicit (and novel) analytical construct which is, in particular, a less-developed-economy agriculture-specific construct. (...)

Object Details

• ISBN: 92-5-100701-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Population and Agricultural Development: Selected Relationships and Possible Planning Uses ; No. 6

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Household Saving; Personal Finance ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; Economics of Contract: Theory ; Agricultural Labor Markets ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Agricultural Finance ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: Rural-to-urban migration ; Agricultural development

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stark, Oded
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations (FAO)
• (where): Rome
• (when): 1978

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232285
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET