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

by Hans Gsanger

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135778347
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/28/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	135 KB

About the Author

Hans Gsanger

Table of Contents

Summary and Conclusions, Introduction, I The High and Low Points of Integrated Rural Development (IRD), 1 Growing Poverty Despite Modernization and Economic Growth—Rural Development as a Strategy, 2 The Basic Needs Strategy and IRD—Grass-Roots- Oriented Development Despite an Unfavourable Environment, 3 Regional Rural Development (RRD) as a Prototype of Rural Development Projects, 4 IRD/RRD—a Failed Approach?, 5 Lessons Learnt from 40 Years of Rural Development—A Provisional Appraisal, II Rural Development under the Conditions of the 1990s, 6 Laying Suitable Foundations for Effective Poverty Orientation in Rural Development, 7 Target-Group-Oriented Sectoral Programmes as Elements of Comprehensive Rural Development, 8 Necessary Modification of the Project Approaches, Notes, Bibliography, Figure 1

Editorial Reviews

Gives a practitioner's account of international experiences with rural development seen from a German angle, analyzing the sobering failures of the various models and approaches. Argues for smaller, self-managed projects to replace those that are large and organized from the top down. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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