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| Fan, Shenggen; Chan-Kang, Connie; Mukherjee, Anit. |
| The rural and urban sectors of an economy are interconnected economically, financially, and socially. Ideally, resources such as capital and labor should move freely between these two sectors. In an undistorted economy, marginal returns to production factors should be equal. As a result, labor productivity and consequently per capita income should be the same. Many have argued that there should not be any distinction between rural and urban sectors. Indeed, there has been a growing interest in the development literature on the linkages between rural and urban development (DfID 2003). However, the relationship between urban and rural sectors in many developing countries is still characterized by an economic dualism, in other words, by the coexistence of a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Urban-rural linkages; Poverty; China; India; Food Security and Poverty; International Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59598 |
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