Essays about: "rural-urban migration"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 33 essays containing the words rural-urban migration.

1. 21. Sidi Moumen, from terror slum to open city

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering

   Author : Karolina Gustavsson; Jennie Luthander; [2014]
   Keywords : mass housing; social housing; slum upgrading; urban revitalization; urban renewal; sustainable urban design; spatial planning; urban planning; radicant design;

   Abstract : Due to rural – urban migration, mass housing has become an inevitable part in the development of cities but mass housing today does not conform to the norms of sustainable urbanism. Most mass housing areas are socially isolated, culturally inappropriate and environmentally unsustainable. READ MORE

3. 22. Rural-urban migration in southwestern rural Uganda - The perceptions and strategies of the left-behind

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

   Author : Martina Andersson; Ida Johansson; [2013-10-25]
   Keywords : livelihood; urbanization; left-behind; rural-urban migration; Uganda; agriculture; development;

   Abstract : Around the globe a phenomenon called rural-urban migration occurs which means that people move from rural to urban areas. The world today gets more and more urbanized and 2007 was the year when more than half of the world’s population lived in urban areas. READ MORE

4. 23. The use of artificial insemination in dairy farms in urban/peri-urban Kampala, Uganda : a study of knowledge, attitude and practices

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

   Author : Camilla Eklundh; [2013]
   Keywords : Reproduction; Fertility; Dairy cow; Minor Field Study; Developing country;

   Abstract : Uganda is one country with fastest growing populations in the world and with more than 25% of the population living in poverty. There is a rapid rural urban migration with increasing demands for food for low income earners especially in these areas. READ MORE

5. 24. VOICES FROM THE SLUM- A study of perceptions amongst rural migrants in Kibera, Nairobi

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Anna Ovesson; [2013]
   Keywords : Rural-Urban Migration; Perceptions; Movements; Urban; Social Bonds; Slum; Kibera; Residential Satisfaction; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Migration and urbanisation have a great impact on many Less Developed Countries. However, limited research has been focusing on the relationship between urbanisation and rapidly growing slum populations. READ MORE

6. 25. Real Income Determinants in Rural and Urban China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Yang Lu; [2013]
   Keywords : internal migration; education; age; migration location; real income gap; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Substantial internal migration has been occurring for over two decades along with economic growth in China, are rural-urban migrants having better off real income than rural non-migrants in the return to education and age? What kind of character does migration location play in terms of the rural-urban real income gap? This paper will probe such issues and investigate the significance of different consequences in real income between migrants group and non-migrants group. By applying multiple linear regressions on the testing hypothesis, paper reaches the conclusion that rural-urban migrants are only having more favorable real income return to education in a lower level, and the return to age for both groups is statistical significant but very economic moderate. READ MORE