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FACTORS OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN SUB-URBAN AREAS OF RAJSHAHI CITY, BANGLADESH
By: Md. Mizanoor Rahman
Key Words: Economic transformation, factors of economic transformation, sub-urban areas
JLES-Vol-5-No-P-47-55, December 2010
AbstractUrbanization of Bangladesh is developed by the natural growth of city, sub-urban growth, sub-urban transformation to urban area, and attaining new urban centers. Accordingly, growth of major urban centers depends on natural growth of city, sub- urban growth, sub-urban transformation and change in development level of sub-urban areas. As a result, the economy of those areas changes over time and the changes are controlled by a number of factors that playing increasingly dominated roles on the urban as well as national economy of Bangladesh. In the research an attempt has been made to identify the factors that have been influencing the economic transformation, the consequences of transformation in the area, and adopted governmental policies and programmes to develop them. Necessary data and information have collected from both primary and secondary sources for the study, and to analysis and represent of collected data quantitative analysis and mapping techniques have been applied. The research findings indicate that the change in economic setting of those areas in term of occupation, income, expenditure, land use, agricultural practices, infrastructure and facilities and so on is dependent on a set of factors such as distance, market demand, growth center, land availability and land value, employment opportunity, facilities and governmental development policies and programmes.
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Manuscript received on23 October and revised on 7 December 2010.
Md. Mizanoor Rahman
FACTORS OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN SUB-URBAN AREAS OF RAJSHAHI CITY, BANGLADESH
JLES-Vol-5-No-P-47-55, December 2010
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