Prioritizing Public Policy Implementation for Rural Development in a Developing Country via Multicriteria Classification

Diego León Peña-Orozco (), María Eugenia Londoño-Escobar, Andrés Mauricio Paredes Rodríguez, Jesús Gonzalez-Feliu () and Gonzalo Navarrete Meneses
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Diego León Peña-Orozco: Programa Académico de Ingeniería Industrial, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Guadalajara de Buga 763042, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
María Eugenia Londoño-Escobar: Programa Académico de Licenciatura en Pedagogía Infantil, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Guadalajara de Buga 763042, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Andrés Mauricio Paredes Rodríguez: Programa Académico de Ingeniería Industrial, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Guadalajara de Buga 763042, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Jesús Gonzalez-Feliu: Excelia Group, Supply Chain, Purchasing and Project Management Department, Excelia Business School, 17000 La Rochelle, France
Gonzalo Navarrete Meneses: Programa Académico de Ingeniería Industrial, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Guadalajara de Buga 763042, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Economies, 2023, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: Despite the growing global interest in promoting rural development as a strategy to guarantee food security, in developing countries there are large gaps to achieve a sustainable countryside, mainly in rural areas. This research work delves into a methodological approach definition to establish the baseline for the public policy implementation and prioritize the intervention needs in the different items considered in an integral rural development public policy. The proposed methodology combines a qualitative characterization of needs and goals, a social cartography, a quantitative characterization of indicators and the use of multicriteria classification for prioritizing development policies. Eight localities with sixteen small rural settlements are taken as a research unit, to apply the proposed methodology and determine the implementation level of a public policy. The results show that a set of priority policies that both meet the authorities’ objectives and the population’s needs can be defined. Moreover, a vector of priority is proposed to define the weakest items, as a guide to local government administrations to focus efforts on interventions to achieve greater impacts on the rural community development under study. Finally, via a double field validity assessment, those strategic lines are hierarchized and analyzed regarding their potential relationships, as a social system.

Keywords: rural development public policy; analytical hierarchy process; multicriteria classification; social cartography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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