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This text demonstrates the mutual effects of, and interconnections between, globalization, urbanization and rural stagnation, both theoretically and empirically. It places its comprehensive empirical investigation on two levels of urbanization - the peri-urban and the fully urbanized areas - and includes the analysis of the rural conditions into the context of the Southern African region, and also into the context of global processes in an historical and interdisciplinary perspective.

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• Introduction and Theoretical Basis: Areas of inquiry and methodology
• Urbanization and globalization
• The Twofold Gap and the Rural-Peri-Urban-Urban Changes: Socio-economic characteristics of the three investigated areas: poverty and relative prosperity
• Poverty and dissatisfaction - job satisfaction
• Migration as a consequence of globalization
• Housing in the two urban worlds and the neglected countryside
• Housing and services as problems
• Female household heads
• Urbanization and the decline of specific social interactions
• Satisfaction and depression in favourable and extreme adverse conditions
• Globalization and Poverty: The root causes of Third World poverty in a globalizing world
• Aspects of an alternative development and an alternative globalization
• Bibliography
• Appendices