Abstract
A concept gaining widespread currency in modern development economics is that of ‘urban bias’.’ This, rather than capitalism or unequal international relationships, is now regarded by some as the most fundamental explanation for the poverty and inequality that racks so many Third World countries today, and as the main contributing factor to the deterioration in the living standards of substantial numbers of rural inhabitants reported in many.2 In the words of its progenitor, Michael Lipton:
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