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dc.contributor.authorObwa, Oiro
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-13T14:29:21Z
dc.date.available2011-10-13T14:29:21Z
dc.date.issued1977-07
dc.identifier.citationObwa, Oiro (1977) The effectiveness of growth and service centres' policy as an instrument for rural development in Kenya. Working paper no. 317, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobien_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/1187
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the strategy, of growth and service centres as an urbanisation and rural development instrument in Kenya. The issue that decentralisation of urban development through designation of hierarchical growth points based on the theoretical framework of the Central Place Theory is critically analysed within the Kenyan Context. Constraints to this planning exercise are highlighted as being past government policies, settlement patterns, and the land tenure system. The effectiveness of the policy as being generatic to the rural surroundings in that the centres will create cash markets for the rural economy by providing industrial goods plus Government services is seen as highly hypothetical in an economy that is neither regionally integrated not internally oriented. Alternative transformative approaches are suggested in the last part of the paperen_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherInstitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobien_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers.;317
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectDevelopment Policyen_GB
dc.subjectRural Developmenten_GB
dc.titleThe effectiveness of growth and service centres' policy as an instrument for rural development in Kenyaen_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (non-IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobien_GB
dc.identifier.blds316656


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