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Urbanisation and emerging population issues
Archived Project
Rural and urban linkages, migration and urbanisation patterns in the context of globalisation.
The links between rural and urban development, with special attention to the role of small urban centres in the development of their surrounding region, migration and mobility, livelihood diversification and rural non-farm employment, transformations in peri-urban areas.