Impacts Of Urbanisation On Rural Areas Exploring The Role Of Small And Medium Towns In Urbanisation. - A Comprehensive Review.

Abstract

The new development plan's detractors believe that post-liberalization urbanization will be extremely high, even though the plan's supporters acknowledge that this will lead to poverty, low-productivity jobs, and worse city life overall. This highlights the critical need for research into the effects of economic liberalization on urbanization traits and trends. The Indian state of Gujarat is rapidly becoming an industrial powerhouse, and this article aims to analyze the trends and patterns of urbanization in the state. It accounts for shifts in the job market and changes in land management/development techniques, companies offering essential services, and systems of urban administration. We tackle persistent development issues by utilizing our newly created dataset of poverty measurements for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years following the commencement of reforms in 1991. For now, this dataset is all we have to work with. Despite rising inequality, we show that poverty measures have been falling since 1970, with a sharp acceleration after 1991. A quicker decline in poverty occurrences was linked to higher growth and more pro-poor growth. The data gathered after 1991 shows stronger connections between different sectors; for example, the growth of urban consumption helped the poor in rural areas as well as those in urban centres, and the relative importance of the primary, secondary, and tertiary components of economic growth is no longer relevant since they have all played a role in eradicating poverty.