Every morning in a village in Ghana, a young man named Kwame wakes before sunrise to tend his family’s small plot of maize. He dreams of moving to Accra where a cousin works in a factory, earning a steady wage. But when he arrives, he finds hundreds of others with the same dream — some with formal jobs, many without, scraping by as street hawkers. This tension between hope and reality is at the heart of how developing countries grow, and it shapes the lives of billions of people. This chapter explains why people move, what kinds of work they find, and the deep economic forces behind their choices.