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Article: Shifting the imbalance: the impact of structural adjustment on rural-urban population movements in Northern Nigeria.
- Article from:
- Journal of Asian and African Studies
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
- Author:
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In the majority of African countries, high rates of rural-urban migration have been blamed on the "urban bias" in resource allocation within the policy framework of the developmental state. According to this argument, investment and terms of trade have been biased in favour of urban centres, while rural areas have suffered from systematic extraction of resources and infrastructural neglect. The result has been a widening gap in incomes and facilities between rural and urban areas, which has tended to attract increasing numbers of rural migrants to the urban areas in search of a share in the good life. Largely as a result of rural-urban migration, urbanization in sub-Saharan ...