ABSTRACT
There is a great range of regional planning strategies pursued in the developing countries of the world, but three common policy problems constantly recur: regional disparities in development, the excessive size of the national metropoli, and rural-urban inequality. The stated objective ofregional policy in many developing countries is to alleviate 'One, or more, of these problems - that is, to reduce interregional and rural-urban disparities and to curb the growth ofthe national metropoli.
