ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces key ideas that will be the building blocks of the later chapters in the book. It sets out to explain why it is important to understand urban-rural relations in the developing world, how they relate to the broader evolution of development theory and how such study might help us understand the problems of development and poverty in some of the world’s poorest countries. The chapter concludes with a brief explanation of the rationale of the way the subject has been divided into the chapters in this book.
