- It requires little capital investment.
- It decentralizes industries reducing rural urban migration.
- Requires little skills
- Encourages innovations
- To diversify export goods.
- To cater for local needs/save on foreign exchange.
- To produce cheap consumer goods.
- To make use of locally available raw materials.
- To create employment opportunities.
- Urban sprawl: Expansion of human settlement away from the central urban areas into previously
remote and rural areas.
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