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Zaire Flight
Another strategy for survival is flight, which for the
politico-commercial class might mean sending family and
fortune
abroad when conditions appear threatening. For
undercompensated
workers, flight might mean movement from a low-wage job in
plantation agriculture to self-employment elsewhere as an
independent farmer, miner, or petty merchant. For
undercompensated
farmers, it might mean migration to the cities; part of
the impetus
behind urban migration is the heavier levies on people in
rural
areas (where they are within the government's reach) than
on the
urban population. And for some groups, flight into deep
forest and
the establishment of villages entirely independent of the
state has
been a solution.
Data as of December 1993
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