Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The demographic background to development in Africa
- 2 Development projects and their demographic impact
- 3 Conceptualization of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution
- 4 Capitalism and the population landscape
- 5 Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment
- 6 Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency?
- 7 Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80
- 8 Populating Uganda's dry lands
- 9 Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagization programme
- 10 Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania
- 11 Communal villages and the distribution of the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique
- 12 A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi
- 13 Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
- 14 Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria
- 15 Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- 16 Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan
- 17 A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan
- 18 Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan
- 19 The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution
- 20 Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
- 21 The Gash Delta: labour organization in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production
- 22 The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan
- 23 The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan
- Index
2 - Development projects and their demographic impact
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The demographic background to development in Africa
- 2 Development projects and their demographic impact
- 3 Conceptualization of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution
- 4 Capitalism and the population landscape
- 5 Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment
- 6 Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency?
- 7 Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80
- 8 Populating Uganda's dry lands
- 9 Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagization programme
- 10 Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania
- 11 Communal villages and the distribution of the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique
- 12 A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi
- 13 Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
- 14 Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria
- 15 Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- 16 Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan
- 17 A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan
- 18 Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan
- 19 The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution
- 20 Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
- 21 The Gash Delta: labour organization in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production
- 22 The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan
- 23 The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The existence of a close mutual interrelationship between population trends and patterns on one hand, and economic and social development on the other, has long been acknowledged in the literature. The writings of Malthus in the late eighteenth century provide an early example of this preoccupation, and since that time economists and social scientists have studied the problem and politicians have attempted to make use of theoretical and predictive formulations postulated by researchers and analysts. The literature is still growing at an impressive rate (U.N., 1971; Tabah, 1976; Hauser, 1979; Easterlin, 1980).
In this essay an attempt is made to discuss briefly various relevant concepts and to suggest possible relationships between the two basic sets of variables – one pertaining to development projects and the other to demographic behaviour. The author is aware that even if the discussion starts at a fairly general level (national), it must inevitably focus on a regional or even local scene, where geographers have often made relevant detailed studies (Webb, 1976: 15).
Development processes and policies
The concept of development and its objectives have been variously defined in the past. The earlier narrowly-conceived economic definition, whereby development was considered synonymous with increasing per capita income or gross national product (G.N.P.), was gradually replaced by a broader concept including various measures – economic, social and structural (Hoselitz, 1960; Kuznets, 1966; Todaro, 1977). The contemporary geographical literature opts for a broad definition (Johnson, 1981: 78).
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- Population and Development Projects in Africa , pp. 20 - 29Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985