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Title:Migrancy and its effect on the economy in Liberia: a socio-economic case study
Author:Hasselmann, Karl-Heinz
Year:1973
Periodical:The Liberian Economic and Management Review
Volume:2
Issue:1
Pages:3-34
Language:English
Geographic term:Liberia
Subjects:social mobility
urbanization
Abstract:This paper attempts to evaluate population mobility in Liberia, especially that of migration - into the capital city of Monrovia: Migrancy and urbanism - Economic motivations for the rural out-migration - Empirical facts for the rural reality of migration - Urban economic activities as an alternative to agricultural employment - Geographic migration and social mobility - Migration latency and socio-economic stabilization or labialisation - Urban employment as a cutting-off force from traditional bindings Urban-rural financial links - Conclusions. Notes, tables.
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