Urbanization

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The paper discusses how rapid urbanization in third world countries is creating many social and economic problems. This is because most developing countries are unprepared to accommodate a rapidly increasing population because of lack of resources and sufficient job opportunities. The paper shows that it is for economic reasons mostly that people in rural areas are forced to migrate to urban centers where they feel they would be able to improve their standard of living. The paper looks at meaningful and effective policies to help stop or divert this influx to a certain extent.

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"For example in India and Pakistan, tens of hundreds of young men and women are moving to the United States and more developed countries because the pay scale is usually higher than it is in their own lands. But while it leads to brain drain in the native countries, it also creates several problems for the adopted countries. For example the one big problem that western countries have faced because of increased immigration is that not only its won citizens have lost jobs rapidly, there has been an increase in ethnic violence too. In the past many years we have noticed that people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and some other poor countries have moved to the western countries and since they were willing to work for less, they were offered the jobs that American citizens rightfully deserved. Now this creates a sense of animosity between the locals and the foreigners and also has a negative impact on the economy of the adopted countries."

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