Departure of business from small communities to urban locations

Nature 
Adequate consumer services generate increased business operation and money circulation within their own boundaries. The current challenge is relocating appropriate commercial and industrial functions in small communities in which many of the commercial functions have gradually been transferred to the nearest market town. At present, residents of communities in which the stable business section has been reduced spend large amounts on goods and services in nearby large communities; and patterns of buying goods away from home are encouraged by short driving distances involved.
Broader 
Disruptive migration of rural population to cities
Lack of social accounting in the business community
Reduces 
Inadequate urban political machinery
Aggravates 
Informal sector [in 18 loops]
Insufficient small businesses
Deteriorating community identity [in 42 loops]
Limited availability of public services in small towns
Ineffectiveness of tradition-bound small business methods [in 95 loops]
Aggravated by 
Limited market development
Prohibitive cost of living
Declining local businesses
Unreliable inventory levels
Lack of corporate achievements
Insufficient local industry planning
Small resident professional workforce
Inaccessible market and supply centres
Discouraging conditions for small business
Limited local markets for goods and services
Discrimination against local community shopping facilities
Reduced by 
Reduced investment in small, inner-city enterprises
Strategy(ies) 
Moving away from small communities
Value(s) 
Business
Departure
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems