Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy
Abstract
The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion people living in rural areas, this largely depends on their access to urban centers of different sizes. Similarly, urban centers depend on their rural hinterlands. Building on the literature on functional areas/territories and the rural–urban continuum as well as insights from central place theory, this review article advances the notion of catchment areas differentiated along an urban-to-rural continuum to better capture these urban–rural interconnections. This article further shows how a new, publicly available dataset operationalizing this concept can shed new light on policymaking across a series of development fields, including institutions and governance, urbanization and food systems, welfare and poverty, access to health and education services, and environmental and natural resource management. Together, the insights support a more geographically nuanced perspective on development.
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Andrea Cattaneo, Anjali Adukia, Luc Christiaensen, David K. Evans, Annie Haakenstad, Theresa McMenomy, … Daniel J. Weiss (2022). Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy. World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105941
@article{andrea2022economic,
title = {Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy},
author = {Cattaneo, Andrea and Adukia, Anjali and Christiaensen, Luc and Evans, David K. and Haakenstad, Annie and McMenomy, Theresa and Partridge, Mark D. and Vaz, Sara and Weiss, Daniel J.},
year = {2022},
journal = {World Development},
doi = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105941}
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