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Title: | Migration and regional policy |
Author: | Roux, A. |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 41-58 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | population policy labour migration industrial policy settlement patterns |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036669 |
Abstract: | The regional policy alternatives open to South Africa may be broadly classified into interventions which promote migration of workers to existing places of work, and programmes which attempt to bring the work to the workers. A satisfactory reduction in spatial inequalities can only be achieved if regional policy aims at bringing the population distribution more in line with the distribution of economic activity. This paper considers the role that migration would have to play in order to achieve greater regional equality. The first section provides estimates of the extent of regional inequality, using per capita gross geographic product (GGP) and per capita personal income (PI) as measures. It is shown that regional policies have achieved little in terms of facilitating a more balanced distribution of economic activity. While primary responsibility for this failure may be assigned to influx control and resettlement policies, it is also widely accepted that intiatives pertaining to industrial decentralization have not been very effective. Future decentralization intitiatives would have to target more appropriate locations, such as secondary cities. However, the real alternative to the present policy is to encourage workers to move to areas where economic opportunities exist. Bibliogr. |