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Agricultural Transformation
Agriculture’s Role in Transforming the Economy
RURAL–URBAN MIGRATION
Attracted by the prospect of better-paying jobs in urban areas, rural emigrants
tend to have education, skill, and income that are higher than average in the rural
areas. Poorer villagers are often at a disadvantage in migrating
POLICIES OF URBAN BIAS
The British economist Michael Lipton argues that the most significant class conflicts
and income discrepancies are not between labor and capital, as Karl Marx
contended, but between rural and urban classes. Despite development plans that
proclaim agriculture as the highest priority sector, and political rhetoric that stresses
the needs of the poor rural masses, government allocates most of its resources to
cities, a policy of urban bias.