the level of living is also growing up. The government has then to have to pay more atten-tion to the rural areas, too. This is one stage in development.

All countries cannot pay equal attention to all the areas, villages, towns, cit ies, every-where. There is a concentration on somewhere, some point, some secto r, I think, is natu-ral. Theoretically, of course,not only governments, are com ing to think about the impor-tance of the very critical linkage between the rur al areas and the cities. The cities are very happy to have more labor force fro m rural areas. Sometimes the rural areas are also happy because of more unemplo yment or also underemployment, and because of a very high population increase r ate. A rural area is also linked with a city, sending its underem-ployed to the city. The young people come into the city, get money and send it back, help-ing the family remaining in the rural area, and more positively. On one hand the bi g cities may face an unfavorable situation, in terms of environment, the so-cal led scaled economy, and due to community and social and environmental committee work, young people want to live outside. If they find the big cities very much unfavorable, some of them moving out into the local cities. A closer relationsh ip between the urban and the rural areas are established, in such cases, so-cal led integrated policy or holistic approach must be made. The priority should be set by government policy on the basis of financial capabilities, depending upon the government policy .

Chairman :

Thank you very much. From Malaysia?

(Hon. Senator Kamilia lbrahim, MALAYSIA)

We know that urbanization is actually inevitable. And urbanization also means t hat there will be development of crime as well as other social implications. We in Malaysia look at urbanization in the context of development where the econom y and the social aspects need to be balanced. Now in your paper, Professor, you made the survey, and you identi-fied problems with urbanization. And also I not ed that the problems also relate to crime as well as the law, which also means social issues as well. I would like to ask you as re-gards to urbanization and government policies, how do we look at tackling the social as-pects of urbaniza tion, and how do we look at it in relation to economic development so that we c an see a balance where there is economic development, the social changes would also not suffer from the economic development, i.e. with urbanization. .

Mr. Chairman, I'd just like to say a few more words. Urbanization, population, environ-ment and food are all interrelated issues. And what you have discovered in the Philip-pines through your survey and through your research is a manifest ation that happened in many other developing countries, not only in the Philipp ines. And, as we know, eighty percent of the world's wealth is controlled by th e rich, eighty percent upwards. And now we are living in the what is called the "global village". My question: What is happening in the Philippines is a manife station of a developing country, where developing countries