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The study of urbanization has, in recent years, assumed increasing importance in developing countries not only because these countries are in the process of facing rapid urbanization, but also because the process of urbanization has been recognized as a part of a larger process of economic and social change which is affecting the rural areas.
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El Nour, Balla, A.H. The relationship between urbanization and socio-economic development in the Sudan. GeoJournal 18, 369–377 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00772691
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