URBAN BIAS IN

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

STUDENT :
TIONGSON YVONNE P.
INSTRUCTOR:
AR. IRENE G. FLORENDO
 a political economy argument according to which economic
development is hampered by groups who, by their central
location in urban areas, are able to pressure governments to
protect their interests.

URBAN BIAS
 Equity
excessive allocation of resources to the urban sector does not
lead to high output as could been expected in a given time
period
 Efficiency
higher proportion of income is distributed to the urban sector
than consistent with the maximization of welfare

CAUSE OF URBAN BIAS

 Poverty
 Lack entrepreneurial values
 Use of traditional or less productive technology
 Lack of economic growth
 Deprived of resources
 Unemployment

EFFECT OF URBAN BIAS

 Sociocultural
 Values
 Traditions
 Innovation and entrepreneurship

FACTORS
Growth Pole/Center Strategy
 introduced in 1949 by a French economist named Francois
Perroux. which centrifugal forces emanate and to which
centripetal forces are attracted. Each center being a center of
attraction and repulsion has its proper field which is set in the
field of all other centers.
 poles can either be firms or industries or group of firms or industries
which can be “propulsive” if it has high interaction with many
other firms, high degree of dominance and great in size.

STRATEGIES
 concept of growth center is that economic and social
development is initiated and transmitted to an area around it. The
concept has varied implications to normative questions of regional
economic development especially with respect to regional
allocation, i.e. investment is best concentrated in growth centers
rather than scattered around in some vague quest for “balance” or
“equity”.
Balanced Agro-Industrial Development Strategy (BAIDS)
 a strategy of support for both agriculture and industry.
 BAIDS takes the following specific objectives for each sector: In
agriculture, emphasis is on increased production, marketing
improvement, land-tenure changes, rural income improvement and
disparity reduction, among others. In industry, promotion of labor-
intensive industries using locally available agricultural inputs is
undertaken and that small scale manufacturing is directed for rural
consumption.

STRATEGIES
 Neoclassical Economics
one of the important bases of regional development policies
as it had been applied to the analysis of regional imbalances
and the manner by which such problem can be resolved.
focused chiefly on the problem of resource allocation.
 Classical economics
the exploration of the formation, distribution and utilization of
the national surplus.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
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