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Title: | The Invasion of the Opportunity Snatchers: The Rural-Urban Interface in Northern Nigeria |
Author: | Meagher, Kate![]() |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 39-54 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Northern Nigeria |
Subjects: | rural-urban relations economic policy wage policy Development and Technology Economics and Trade Urbanization and Migration |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02589000124126 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=D4LMAH2PNYXFF571VULW |
Abstract: | The aim of structural adjustment to increase agricultural relative to urban incomes, and to encourage a pattern of reverse migration, has not worked out according to plan. The author illustrates with evidence from a study of the rural non-farm sector in Nasarawan Doya, a grain-surplus village in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, that rural dwellers are not able to benefit from new opportunities arising in the rural non-farm sector as a result of structural adjustment. The original study was conducted in 1996-1997. An initial section of the paper considers the inversion of the rural-urban dichotomy represented by the literature on small rural towns. This is followed by an outline of the characteristics and non-farm history of the study village. The stage is then set for a consideration of the new non-farm economic opportunities created by structural adjustment, their long-term economic potential, and the social groups in a position to exploit them. Bibliogr. |