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 of regional 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 of the national metropoli.
