Development and the Rural-Urban Divide

John Harriss, Mick Moore

Editor’s Introduction; 1. Political Economy and the Rural-Urban Divide, 1767-1981 Mick Moore 2. Relative Agricultural Prices and the Urban Bias Model: A Comparative Analysis of Tanzania and Fiji Frank Ellis 3. Urban Bias, Rural Bias or State Bias? Urban-Rural Relations in Post-Revolutionary China Peter Nolan and Gordon White 4. ‘Generative’ or ‘Parasitic’ Urbanism? Some Observations from the Recent History of a South Indian Market Town Barbara Harriss and John Harriss 5. Categorising Space: Urban-Rural or Core-Periphery in Sri Lanka Mick Moore 6. ‘Urban Bias’ and Rural Poverty: A Latin American Perspective M. R. Redclift 7. Urban Bias Revisited Michael Lipton