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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Rural-to-urban Migration"”.
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The migrant network effect : an empirical analysis of rural-to-urban migration in South Africa
Recent empirical migration literature in South Africa suggests that access to physical and human capital, in the way of finance and education respectively, are key factors in increasing one’s probability of migrating. This paper attempts to extend this literature by directly measuring the extent to …
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Bone health in Gambian women: impact and implications of rural-to-urban migration and the nutrition transition
Urbanisation and the associated nutrition transition have been linked with the recent rise in osteoporotic fragility fracture incidence in many countries. Predictions indicate that hip fracture incidence will increase 6-fold in Africa and Asia by 2050, partially attributed to demographic transition …
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Internal migration in Malaysia:Spatial and temporal analysis
… in the third world countries claimed that rural to urban migration was the result of rapid urbanisation in many developing countries. With the hypothesis that migration, especially rural to urban migration, is the dominant factor for urbanisation in Malaysia, a study is undertaken to …
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The Economics of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the United States, 1920--1970
… harvest only 20 percent of the world's cotton. This study of the patterns and consequences of cotton harvest mechanization provides insight for policy makers in countries where this type of future technological change will elicit enormous rural-to-urban migration and capital-for-labor …
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Sponsorship and migration in Northeast Thailand
Sponsorship is widely recognized as a major factor in migration decisions. However, the extent to which it encourages potential migrants to move has been little documented. This study documents the role of urban sponsorship in rural to urban migration decisions, specifically sponsorship in …
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Migration of youth to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: determinants of mobility and adjustment experiences.
… the country has grown economically. However, due to a bias toward development policies which have been mainly concentrated in urban areas, the economic gap between rural and urban areas has rapidly widened over time. More job opportunities and better living conditions in the city, as well as low …
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Urban re-vision: Philippi market space
… investigates a link between food security and rural to urban migration in the city of Cape Town. Philippi as a Gateway to the City of Cape Town for many people migrating from rural South Africa, especially people from the Eastern Cape is therefore a natural site for the investigation. The point …
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Three Essays on Labor Supply in China
… labor market behavior of the wage workers with urban registration (Hukou). The first chapter outlines the dissertation by briefly discussing the motivations, methods, and main findings in each of the following chapters. Chapter two examines the evolution of female labor supply in urban China. …
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A Study on Mobility: Pakistani-Origin Muslim Youth in Higher Education
… the multiple and overlapping mobility trajectories of transnational youth as marked by particular, semiotic practices and narratives. During the 16 months of fieldwork, my focal fieldsites—the hallways, dorms, student club- rooms, cafeterias, and libraries at two comparable college …
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Navigating Progress: The Role of State Capacity in Shaping China’s Internal Migration Dynamic
<p>Migration is an important demographic phenomenon, especially domestic migration in an open society driven by opportunities in China after the 1970s. With the surge of internal migration, regional development disparities have widened. This study aims to examine migration flows within the …
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Crops or Crafts? Changes in Land Use in the Imbabura Valley of Ecuador
<p>In rural societies where urbanization and modernization are contributing to rapid growth, changes in land use can both reflect and bring about broader changes within a community. This study seeks to investigate changes in land use in the Imbabura valley of Ecuador from the perspective of the …
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Some issues of regional development and planning in Libya
… issues of regional development as they relate to a classic problem of underdevelopment, namely, the dualism of the space economy. The reversal of regional imbalance becomes a complex problem because the polarizing process is historically conditioned and is deeply ingrained into the structural …
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Bridging the past and the present “Rediscovering Prieska's forgotten cultural landscape”
… with the Khoi people, originally referred to a location where farmers settled after rainstorms. This area, overseen by a village management board since 1882 and granted municipal status in 1892, became known for its semiprecious stones and as a vital crossing point for travelers (C K …
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Exploring community-led total sanitation as a mechanism to eliminate open-defecation: A case study of Havana informal settlement in Windhoek, Namibia
The study seeks to explore whether the newly adopted Community-Led Total Sanitation can improve access to and use of latrines in the Havana informal settlement as opposed to the current model of subsidised ablution facilities. Namibia has made tremendous strides in improving sanitation, …
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Characteristics and reproductive health needs of female 'Rural to Urban' migrants in Zambia
Background Rural-to-urban migration has been a powerful trend in developing countries. When people migrate from rural to urban areas, they face problems of dislocation and need to adapt to new, often difficult surroundings. Consequently, they face many risks to their health, including their …
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Migrants and modernisation : a study of change in Lao society
This thesis focusses on the interaction between rural-to-urban migration on the one hand, and 'modernisation' on the other, in the fields of economic, political and social relations in Lao society.The introduction presents the concepts and research methods used and the design of the thesis. It …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
China's rural-to-urban migration has attracted a great deal of research attention since the late 1980s, but migrants' poverty has not been properly understood. Previous studies have mostly regarded China's rural-to-urban migrants as a disadvantaged or marginalized group in the city. However, …
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The Poverty of China's Rural-to-Urban Migrants: A Case Study of Shanghai
China's rural-to-urban migration has attracted a great deal of research attention since the late 1980s, but migrants' poverty has not been properly understood. Previous studies have mostly regarded China's rural-to-urban migrants as a disadvantaged or marginalized group in the city. However, …
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Aetiology and outcome of patients burned from 2003 to 2008 at the Tygerberg Hospital burns unit, Western Cape, SA
Rural to urban migration to major cities in South Africa continues to lead to the proliferation of informal settlements. There is little recent published data on the epidemiology of adult burns in the Western Cape, South Africa. The prediction of outcome in severe burns is important to aid in …
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Three essays in development economics: Private transfers, farmers' retirement, and learning failures
"This dissertation evaluates the rural pension program in China and the agricultural extension program in Malawi. Farmers’ private transfer behavior, retirement behavior, and learning failures are discussed in the three chapters respectively. The first chapter studies the impact of a newly …
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