Is it Push or Pull: Evidence from Migration in India

This project was funded by the South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI). In this project, the team studied whether it is the pull factors such as job opportunities in cities, or, the push factors such as the non-existence of non-farm employment in rural areas, that drives rural-urban migration in India’s cities, taking the case of Bangalore. The findings were presented in SANEI’s tenth annual conference in Dhaka during March 30-31, 2010, after which they were subsequently revised and the final report was submitted in June 2010.