The Future of Rural Development: Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

by Gsanger,Hans

• ISBN13: 9780714641041
• ISBN10: 0714641049
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135778347
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book gives a practitioner's account of international experiences with rural development seen from a German angle. It argues for a development co-operation for rural areas that actively supports popular participation, beneficiaries' self-organization, decentralization and, consequently, smaller self-managed (para)projects rather than large, top-down organized rural development projects.

Author Biography

Hans Gsanger is a Research Fellow at the German Development Institute, Berlin.

Table of Contents

Summary and Conclusions	p. 1
Introduction	p. 8
The High and Low Points of Integrated Rural Development (IRD)	p. 10
Growing Poverty Despite Modernization and Economic Growth - Rural Development as a Strategy	p. 10
The Basic Needs Strategy and IRD - Grass-Roots-Oriented Development Despite an Unfavourable Environment	p. 19
Regional Rural Development (RRD) as a Prototype of Rural Development Projects	p. 26
IRD/RRD - a Failed Approach?	p. 33
Lessons Learnt from 40 Years of Rural Development - A Provisional Appraisal	p. 42
Rural Development under the Conditions of the 1990s	p. 49
Laying Suitable Foundations for Effective Poverty Orientation in Rural Development	p. 49
Target-Group-Oriented Sectoral Programmes as Elements of Comprehensive Rural Development	p. 52
Necessary Modification of the Project Approaches	p. 68
Notes	p. 74
Bibliography	p. 80
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