Abstract
Cities having industries with high productivity and employment
magnetize rural population and resultantly influence commercial
activities. Likewise other developing economies, Pakistan (sixth
most populous country in the world) also experienced a rise in its
rate of urbanization at 2.81% in 2015-16. This raising pace of
urbanization embraces emerging challenge of resource reallocation
in both rural and urban sectors of the economy. Thus the structural
transformation in the economy along effective nutrition and human
developmental policies are serious notes among the many other
socio-economic developmental strategies of country. In order to
address access to necessities (food and drinking water insecurity
and sanitation services), the present study is an attempt to discuss
the association of improvement in health care, sanitation, water
availability and especially food insecurity. For the purpose, time
series data is taken for the period of 1975 to 2016.While to analyze
the impact of urbanization to the necessities, this paper gives
particular attention to theoretical and empirical findings observed
from attributes of population development in rural areas. Technique
of ARDL and Toda Yamamoto Granger Causality are applied to
examine the relationship of variables. The study finds a significant
association of food, sanitation services and water availability to the
growth of urban population.
Rummana Zaheer, Sanam Wagma Khattak, Saman Hussain. (2019) Urbanization and Its Impact on Necessities: Opportunities and Challenges in Pakistan, The Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Volume-27, Issue-2.
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