This has been found to be true for two sets of policies implemented inSouth Africa. Ones that were implemented during Apartheid, while they encouraged the migration of unskilled laborers from rural to urban areas, failed to promote settlement and adaptation of African communities in the cities and...
South Africa’s population in 2000 Total population: 44,896,856 Urban population: 25,542,270 (57%) Rural population: 19,354,586 (43%) Population of the largest city: 5,605,027 (12%) Population of other cities: 19,937,243 (44%) South Africa’s population in 2010 Total population: 5...
Compared with the City Beautiful movement that flourished in the United States between the 1890s and the 1920s with a view to make cities a better place, China’s campaign seeks to simultaneously improve rural and urban environments in the belief that town and country are inseparable...
South Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemic poses a major public health threat with multi-faceted harmful impacts and ‘socially complex’ outcomes. W
We invited ten universities with over 30% of their student load from RRR home communities located in postcodes outside of major cities (ABS 2016) to take part in the student survey. Our survey questions focused on factors related to home communities that influence and enable higher education ...
However, unlike large-scale regions, cities, and towns, research on rural areas has many unique characteristics. For example, due to the small research scale, the required research data accuracy should be high; otherwise, the results will be affected. In addition, complete statistics are not ...
cities to engage in urbanization projects. Consequently, the rural elderly and some women, responsible for caring for young children, remain in rural areas. On the one hand, the elderly and women exhibit higher adherence to religious beliefs, while on the other hand, they face disadvantages in ...
projects. But our needs in infrastructure are still huge. There's still much room in our cities, and China has been opening its door of support. What we feel is that the support China is giving us today is a continuation of the support it has given us in the national liberation of ...
During the Early Modern Period, wool manufacturing moved out of the large cities in search of lower labour costs and to take advantage of the shift in demand for lighter, lower-quality fabrics—the new draperies. This proto-industrial system was usually controlled by traders who, through artisan...
Cities drive change in rural areas via increasing demand for rural food production (Suckall et al. 2015), off-farm employment opportunities, and the emergence of new markets (FAO 2020), whilst urban-based households depend on rural exchanges to maintain diversified livelihoods. Reciprocal movements...