DAR ES SALAAM is a commercial city that attracts many people in search of better opportunities, leading to significant ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari highlights the migration from rural to urban areas in India due to poverty and unemployment. He ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 34, No. 3, Summer 2020 Urbanization in the Developing ...

Much of Afghanistan’s urban population growth has been attributable to natural growth rather than rural-urban migration. As a consequence, the share of the population living in officially classified ...

The study by the Agriculture and Food Global Department finds that migrants in Africa integrate well into urban labor markets, with better outcomes in towns than in cities. Education, social networks, ...

Rural-to-urban migrations often stem from desperation. People in rural areas migrate to access basic necessities like clean water, healthcare and education. Urban areas also offer better income ...

The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

But the pandemic has also proven that new technologies can enable rural populations to flourish, ending the rural-urban divide. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the new technologies ...