Geography - Push and pull factors
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- 'Push' and 'Pull' Factors of moving to cities in poor countries
- Push
- drought
- crops fails, so people have no money to buy food - they starve
- lack of job opportunites
- overgrazing by animals
- soil erosion
- remoteness
- lack of services
- lack of investment
- large families
- high birth rate
- many do not own any land
- not enough land for each heir
- poor seed and tools, little fertiliser, low output, insufficient food, malnutrition
- pests eat crops and cause ill-health
- floods
- crops for export - not local use
- people sell their food, then have to buy their own food so they are not self sufficient, and may to have enough money to buy food
- drought
- Pull
- better paid jobs in industry
- higher salaries
- better housing, schools and hospitals
- people think the housing is better, but they can't actually afford these things
- more reliable sources of food
- shops and entertainment
- Push
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