Economic Development Implication of Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria: Anambra State in Focus

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anselem Nweke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

scholarly journals Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria, Implication on the Development of the Society: Anambra State as the Focus of the Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Anselem C. Nweke
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Mode Analysis ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
The Government

This paper examines the implication of rural- urban migration on Nigeria Society using Anambra state as focus of the study. Cities have been growing both through natural increase and through stampede from rural areas in Nigeria. People migrate to urban areas based on the prevailing conditions they fund themselves and the reasons for the migration vary from one individual to another depending on the situation that informs the decision to migrate. In most rural areas, the effect of rural-urban migration was a rapid deterioration of the rural economy leading to poverty and food scarcity. The cause of the phenomenon has been described as the push factors in the rural areas and the pull factors in the urban areas. The objective of this paper is to identify the implication of rural-urban migration on Nigeria society. It is a survey research. Thus, 1200 questionnaire were distributed among the selected local governments in Anambra State. The analysis was run using Runs test and mode analysis. The result of the analysis found the effect of people migrating from rural areas to urban centres on the society to include: increase in prostitution in the urban centres; increase in squalor settlement in the urban centres; and people are doing all sorts of odd jobs in order to survive in urban centres. The paper therefore recommends that the government should make and implement a policy on provision of functional social amenities such as electricity, pipe borne water etc. in the rural areas. Good schools and qualified teachers should be made available in the rural areas and establishment of industries in both rural and urban areas that will to an extent accommodate unemployed youths.

scholarly journals Developing Small Towns as a Panacea to Poverty Reduction in Nigeria: A Focus on Itam And Ikot Ekpene in Akwaibom State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Atelhe, George Atelhe ◽  
Akande, Benyin Adah ◽  
Peter Eyo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
High Level

Nigeria’s economic development has most times been centred on promoting the expansion and growth of major cities in the country, while relegating the small towns to the background. Much attention has not been placed on rehabilitating and providing better living conditions for inhabitants of small towns.  This has resulted in the continuous influx of goods and services into bigger cities, with the aim of finding greener pastures. This incidence invariably brings about overpopulation problems as encountered in these cities. Most of the poverty incidence experienced in Nigeria is often times situated in small towns where there are high level of income inequality and illiteracy. It is against this background the paper adopts a textual analysis to ascertain the rate of poverty incurred in small towns as a result of rural-urban migration. The paper also establishes the facts that developmental incentives in small towns is a panacea for equal development across the unit of the country. From the evidence in the paper, it is recommended that one way to reduce the poverty rate anchors on the need for government to ensure that measures for allocation of public investment across different sized urban agglomerations should be implemented selectively based on landmass so as to avoid over-crowding.  

REMITTANCE BEHAVIOUR OF OUT-MIGRATION IN ROHTAS DISTRICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (66) ◽  
pp. 15293-15303
Author(s):  
Shyam Krishna Jee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Group Factor ◽  
Population Geography ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Intact Human migration is an important area of research in Population Geography. It has been related to mankind from the very beginning of human life. During earlier days people used to move from one forest to another in search of food. The development of civilization helped people to keep animals and cultivated land. This led to the development of settlement. But at this stage also, people continued to move from one region to another in search of fertile land. In due course of time, the development of trade, industry and transport encouraged people to move from one area to another. These developments accelerated rural-urban migration which caused urbanization and industrialization. Remittances has also affected the migration level in this study remittance behaviour has been analysed. It affects the variable measuring economic development. In any economy, unbalanced regional development leads to internal migration. Moreover, globalization and liberalization generated system as well as flow of remittances. In present study remittance behaviour of out-migrants in state of Bihar and Rohtas district has been discussed. In this study age-group factor have been carved out according to remittance behaviour.

In Perspective: A Summing Up

2021 ◽  
pp. 385-410
Author(s):  
Robert E.B. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Transformation Potential ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

The cumulative findings are summarized under five cross-cutting themes: rural-urban migration and urbanization; the role of rural-urban migration in economic development; the incidence and nature of temporary moves; the consequences of gender imbalance in migration; and implications for the structure and well-being of families. Also included are reflections on the complex range of policies that shape internal migration and the lack of coordination in planning. The desirability of intent to limit rural-urban migration is doubted, given the inexorability of structural transformation, potential gains to moving, and continuing threat from climate change. Planning for managed urban growth, which remains in its infancy in many developing countries, is vital. A closing postscript portrays populations as trapped between declining rural opportunities as climate change proceeds and COVID centered in cities. It is too early to predict how the dynamics of the pandemic will evolve, but climate change will not likely be contained.

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