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The Small Urban Center in Rural Development: Kita (Mali) and Testour (Tunisia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Nicholas S. Hopkins
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This paper examines the role of the small urban center in promoting rural development through an analysis of two cases, one West African and the other North African. Kita (Mali) and Testour (Tunisia) are approximately the same size, have something of an urban atmosphere in contrast to their surrounding countryside, and play a roughly analogous role within the political economy of their nations. Both were in single-party states at the time of research; had had French colonialism for about the same period; and have modern institutions that owe something to the French pattern. Both have experienced attempts to build socialism.

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Africa , Volume 49 , Issue 3: Small Towns in African Development , July 1979 , pp. 316 - 328
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Copyright © International African Institute 1979

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