Migration and Transformative processes in Rural Areas
Keywords:
Migration, Rural TransformationAbstract
Migration is a natural outcome of structural and rural transformation processes that go along with development. As agriculture and rural sectors transform, sectorial growth linkages spur the emergence and expansion of urban industrial and service sectors, which in turn pull workers from rural sectors to urban areas. At the rural household level, temporary, seasonal, and permanent migration has been shown to have significant benefits on income diversification, resilience, and productivity-enhancing investments. As such, migration is a key contributor to and consequence of rural and structural transformation. Nowadays, the migration of people to the cities is proceeding at historically unprecedented rates, especially in developing countries. A large part of the explanation of urbanization can be found in the economic stagnation of rural areas. Nowadays, more than 3 billion people over the world live in rural areas and a quarter of them in extreme poverty. Rural transformation in general has been conceptualized as modernization, rural development, changes in economic structure, and the migration of the population from the farming sector to the non-farming sectors of the economy
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