Abstract Previous work on transportation investments has focused average impacts in high- and middle-income countries. We estimate heterogeneous effects a poor continent, Africa, using roads cities data spanning 50 years 39 Using changes market access due to distant road construction as source of exogenous variation, we 30-year elasticity city population with respect about 0.08–0.13. Our result...

Rural migration and its relationship to the rural environment have attracted increasing research interest in recent decades. Rural migration constitutes a key component of human population movement, while rural areas contain most of the world's natural resources such as land and forests. This study empirically evaluates a conceptual framework incorporating rural household livelihoods as an inte...

China’s urbanisation process is unique compared to that of other developed economies in while the rural population migrating cities large numbers, area homestead use also continues increase. This research uses macro data and a threshold model further analyse this phenomenon “farmers leaving increasing”. Specifically, we focus on mechanisms action, development patterns regional differences impac...

The Latino population in the United States continues to increase, diversify, and disperse geographically in dramatic fashion. Latinos are now the largest race/ethnic minority group in the United States, a fact not fully recognized by scholars, public officials, health practitioners, or people in the United States (Grieco & Cassidy, 2001). They are projected to constitute nearly one fourth of th...

spatial organizations of each region are evolved through the activity of its settlement network. the formation procedure of settlement network is affected by the natural environment, social and economical structure, political and historical events. natural environment, social and economical structure of the city of talesh, have not permitted the permanent settlement and urbanism in this region....

introduction many plans and programs have been outlined to solve problems including rapid increase of urbanization, unbalanced distribution of population, a plenty of urban problems, increase of unemployment, underdevelopment of rural points, immigration and specially migration of active population toward metropolitan areas. these are rampant issues throughout iran like many other developing co...

BACKGROUND Although there are several studies to investigate the smoking behaviors among rural-to-urban Chinese migrants, no study has focused individually on this population in Shanghai. This study was performed to estimate the prevalence and identify the determinants of tobacco smoking among rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, multi-stage quota sampli...

Abstract
 In light of the development rural areas and residents' migration to cities in pursuit survival, urban population is rising. As a result, more people are moving like Chennai search work that can support, making untenable. The only way solve this issue make tiny towns villages livable places. Most claim if they could earn 40% less than do Chennai, would be content live small villag...