Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Migration as Development, Revisited

The Economist on urbanization, migration, and development.

Short version: The world is getting more urbanized. Cities grow larger because they provide economic benefits. Governments can capitalize on the benefits of boom towns by linking them infrastructurally with lagging areas, to facilitate migration from rural poverty (as China is scrambling to do in its impoverished west).

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