In many countries around the world, rural people are moving to cities, so the population in the country side is decreasing. Do you think this a positive or negative development.

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In many parts of the globe, there is a noticeable increase in rural
migration
to urban areas, which has resulted
to
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a decrease
of
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population
in local places.
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essay will discuss both positive and negative aspects and my opinion. On the one hand, the positive side of
migration
is that it reduces
poverty
rate
and promotes healthy living.
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,
there
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reduce
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poverty
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the poverty
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rate
because people who migrate leave their jobs vacant and so,
this
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and this
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creates job
opportunity
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opportunities
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for the unemployed thereby reducing
unemployment
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the unemployment
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rate
as well as
poverty
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the poverty
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rate
.
In addition
decline in
unemployment
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rate
also
drops come
rate
as individuals are no longer idle and jobless.
Secondly
, less
population
promote healthy living. So, when there is a fall in
population
size, it results
to
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, less pollution
such
as overcrowding , noise pollution and even air pollution from exhaust pipes of cars and these are all beneficial to the health of the citizens.
On the other hand
, one of the negative aspects of
this
,
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is poor socio-economic development.
Due to
migration
to the
city
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city,
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there is
decrease
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a decrease
the decrease
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in manpower in the local places. As
such
,
few
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workers equals less produce, businesses
also
have
less
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buyers all of
this
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results
to
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a
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low economic growth. In conclusion, despite the negative sides of
migration
. In my opinion,
this
is a positive development as it reduces
over
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overpopulation
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population
and
poverty
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • urbanization
  • infrastructure
  • overcrowding
  • standard of living
  • depopulation
  • agriculture
  • traditional industries
  • educational facilities
  • healthcare facilities
  • social issues
  • community ties
  • neglect
  • spill-over effects
  • remittances
  • investments
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