title: Migration, urban growth, and development:  Pakistan's experience.
abstract: The authors "focus primarily on voluntary, peacetime migration [in Pakistan], both internal and international, and attempt to analyze some of its possible socioeconomic consequences."  The importance of the role of migration in urban population growth is discussed, with attention to implications for social and economic development.  The impact of large-scale emigration of workers to the Middle East is also assessed.  The analysis is based on data from the 1951, 1961, 1972, and 1981 censuses as well as from secondary sources.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Karim
mesh_terms: D000352:Africa, Northern; D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005843:Geography; D006280:Health Workforce; D010154:Pakistan; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D012922:Social Change; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Migration; Migration, Internal; Northern Africa; Pakistan; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Rural-urban Migration; Social Development; Southern Asia; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution--changes; Urbanization; Western Asia