In many countries around the world rural people are moving to cities so the population in the countryside is decreasing. Do you think is a positive or a negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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of
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the countryside
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is decreasing because most of their
people
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are moving to the cities. In my opinion,
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is a negative development, because it may lead to
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crisis and problems with labour. Agriculture plays
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a significant
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role for
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most of the countries, providing food and developing
economy
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the economy
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. Rural
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are the biggest source of
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modern agricultural resources and local
people
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moving to cities may affect it negatively.
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happens because
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the decrease
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in
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population
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the population
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of those
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will lower the
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of potential workers, leading to job shortages and
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a fall
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in
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yield. The prime example is Kazakhstan, where annual agricultural output
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decreased dramatically in the
last
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decade
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more
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relocating to urban
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. As
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result, it had
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a devastating
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effect on
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the economy
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of the country, since the production and export rates have diminished. Populating urban
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instead
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of the rural ones can
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cause problems with
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workforce
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. Cities usually have issues with the lack of jobs,
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the countryside
face
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issues with scarcity of employees.
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relocating actions,
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, would worsen both of these problems without benefiting
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the country
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same as citizens.
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, recent studies in Russia show that if
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not stop moving to urban
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the problem of unemployment will rise up by 17% in the next 15 years. It will serve as a huge
economical
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burden, leaving
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population
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the population
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without jobs and
countryside
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the countryside
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without workers. In conclusion, the decrease in the
population
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of rural
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will not only weaken
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the country’s
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agriculture and economy
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but
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lower citizen’s quality of life.
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task response
You have addressed the task effectively by discussing the negative impacts of the phenomenon.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • rural-to-urban migration
  • population shift
  • positive impact
  • negative impact
  • urbanization
  • job opportunities
  • access to education
  • access to healthcare
  • urban infrastructure
  • rural traditions
  • cultural heritage
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