Abstract
The rural and urban sectors of the economy are strongly interlinked. Growth in one sector impacts on the other. The growth process does not appear to be an equilibrium one in which marginal adjustments to opportunity costs eliminate disparities. The two sectors grow in an unbalanced way. So far, the economic advantages appear to have favored the urban sector. The income gap between the rural and urban sectors continues to widen; rural income per capita is around three-fourths of urban income. The incidence of rural poverty is twice as high as urban poverty. Rural people have relatively limited access to health facilities, they are more likely than urban dwellers to live in substandard housing, and they attain lower levels of education. Some conditions in the rural sector have
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