Rural Development

Judith Heyer, Pepe Roberts and Gavin Williams

Chapter 1 in Rural Development in Tropical Africa, 1981, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this introduction we present an overview of rural development as an ideology and as a practice. We argue that as a practice, with some significant exceptions, it does not achieve its ostensible goals. We conclude that this failure is the result of the incompatibility both between different goals and between the goals and the means which are almost universally promoted as the ways to achieve rural development. This incompatibility is concealed by a rhetoric which asserts the mutual interests of rural development agencies, governments and rural populations en masse. This rhetoric of common interest obscures the reasons for failure.

Keywords: Rural Population; Rural Development; External Agency; Rural People; Rural Poor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_1

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