Rural Development & Institutional Policy

Introduction

This thematic area emphasizes that rural development activities must be

1. Organized around well-defined technologies and objective
2. Organized to use available human resource endowments in rural areas
3. Dependent on the development of an institutional capacity to mobilize the limited political and economic resources available in rural communities
4. Made to understand welfare in rural areas remains a problem of level of output per person and distribution and
5. Organized around human resources that have received formal training.
6. The major objective of the thematic area is to provide the student with a variety of methodological issues to analyze multiple facets of rural and regional development and examine the impact of macroeconomic policies on rural development.