| 1. Title: Rural and urban population changes and the stages of economic development: a unified approach Author: Miyao T Source: Environment and Planning A. 1983 Sep;15(9):1,161-74. Abstract: The long-term aspects of the process of economic development and urbanization are examined. A model is presented that shows the dynamics of economic development from the earliest to the more advanced stages. "The model is able to explain not only the occurrence of a downturn in the rural population after the initial phase of population growth both in rural and urban areas, but also the delayed occurrence of such a downturn in many present-day developing countries. The author then focuses [on] the later stages of economic development and explains two alternative courses of urbanization, namely, the reversal process and the continual-growth process, as special cases of the general model; which of the courses occurs depends on the value of the elasticity of urban agglomeration-economies." (EXCERPT) Language: English Keywords: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | DEVELOPED COUNTRIES | GLOBAL | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | URBANIZATION | MODELS, THEORETICAL | ECONOMIC MODEL | RURAL POPULATION | URBAN POPULATION | POPULATION DISTRIBUTION | RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION | TURNAROUND MIGRATION | CHANGES | Economic Factors | Urban Population Distribution | Geographic Factors | Population | Research Methodology | Population Characteristics | Demographic Factors | Migration | Population Dynamics | Migration, Internal | Social Change Document Number: 204928 |
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