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Urbanization in Bangladesh: causes and consequences

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Md. Fouad Hossain Sarker:
Some of the positive consequences of urbanization are the following:

•   Economic benefits: higher productivity, better income etc.
•   Demographic benefits: lowering of age at marriage, reduction of fertility rate.
•   Socio-cultural benefits: modernization
•   Political benefits: empowerment, democracy etc.
•   Improved access to information technology.

Md. Fouad Hossain Sarker:
Negative Consequences of Migration and Urbanization

Urbanization is not an unmixed blessing. Its negative consequences are of great
concern. These assume critical role under situation of rapid and uncontrolled or unplanned urban expansion.

The negative consequences can be grouped as the following:
• Environmental consequences: pollution
• Encroachment on productive agricultural land and forests
• Extreme pressure on housing, growth of slums and the pressure on services
• Economic consequences, leading to income inequality and poverty, ill effectsof globalization
• Social consequences, resulting in increased violence and crime, social degradation
• Cultural consequences: entry of alien culture, loss of national cultural identity
• Political consequences: Criminalization of politics.

marjan.jmc:
very good post.

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