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How Cities In India Can Attract More Rural Population?

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  • Sabyasachi TRIPATHI

    (Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 11 Myasnitskaya St., 101000, Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

The low level of rural to urban migration needs to boost up for a higher rate of urbanization and economic development in India. In this paper, we use cross-section data models to investigate the relevant determinants of rural to urban migration at the city level in India in 2001. City-level analyses show that employment opportunities and availability of infrastructure facilities pull people from rural areas to urban areas; however, a higher level of living cost, poverty, and inequality discourage migration. India’s abundant rural resources such as land and labor need to reallocate to the urban areas to increase productivity and economic growth. In this context, we suggest that management of poverty, inequality, job creation, provision of better infrastructural facilities are essential at the city level to promoting rural to urban migration in India.

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  • Sabyasachi TRIPATHI, 2020. "How Cities In India Can Attract More Rural Population?," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 0(1), pages 143-154, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:hrs:journl:v:xii:y:2020:i:1:p:143-154
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    1. Nikolai VOROSHILOV, 2021. "Trends, Problems, And Mechanisms Of The Development Of Northern Rural Territories In The European Russia," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 0(2), pages 93-108, June.

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    Keywords

    Urbanization; rural to urban migration; urban economic growth; India;
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    JEL classification:

    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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