3.2 Rural Development
According to Oyeleye, D.A.(1987) he defines rural development as process in which development in social infrastructures such as better roads, water supply, electricity, schools and hospitals spreads out from the urban centres or communities and moves into the rural villages and communities.
Abumere S.I. (2002) stated that if rural development is defined as a means to help improve the physical, cultural, social and economic status or life of the rural people then that means that infrastructures such as roads, clean water, electricity, telecommunication and other facilities must be carefully planned and delivered to the rural people in a consistent manner. It doesn’t matter whether these infrastructures are built from the urban centres and move into the rural areas or vice versa. The delivery mechanisms must be very consistent.
Inorder for any country to develope and progress both socially and economically, it must have the necessary infrastructures that are needed to facilitate such development, in both urban and rural areas of the country.
However studies have shown that in most developing countries, rural areas/villages are mostly neglected therefore these rural areas don’t have these basic infrastructures that are needed for development. Therefore there is a huge demand for building infrastructures into rural areas.
That is very true for Papua New Guinea where the bulks of the population live in the rural areas. The Gena villagers are one of the
I was born and raised in developing country, Indonesia, the situation made me observed less progressive basic infrastructure such as roads, bridges, electricity, and mass transportation availability in many Indonesia’s rural regions or even cities, because I witnessed by myself during the time I lived in my hometown South Tangerang City and the village
With the advancements in agriculture such as, the irrigation system and domesticated animals, populations increases leading the way to village life. In the village life, a small community works together in effort to maintain life with a simple structure to
In rural and urban areas, corporatization, brain drain, and the impact of mega cities influences human behavior with poverty. Poverty is a social problem that is difficult to correct related to the overlap of other social problems like inequality, health, education, and social status. Also, the growth and decrease in human population is a factor to poverty. The value and norms from society in the rural and urban areas is self-sufficiency as a picture for work, family, community, and safety. However, the negative impact with poverty jeopardize society's resources in rural and urban areas by pressurizing the norms and value for future growth and development. Today, people move to the cities reducing the size of rural areas for a many of reasons. A shift in rural and urban population affects the ecosystem, biosystem, microsystem, and macrosystem.
What should the priorities be for the improvement of rural development policy (with respect to both content and implementation)?
To build an infrastructure and promoting industrialization there are factors which are bound to be followed and they include; as much as there is advancement in the manufacturing and employment, there is need to invest and develop infrastructure of the third world countries who are still in the process of developing. This will ensure that the gross domestic product of the country (third world countries) will double by 2030.
Presently, the Act covers 626 districts of the country. Legislation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and efforts at its subsequent implementation beginning the financial year 2006-07 mark a sharp departure from the past tradition, as the latter are designed around the basic concept of a rights based approach to development (Datta et al, 2009). Prior to this, India was following the needs based approach. So there was a paradigm shift in the approach to development with the launch of MGNREGA.
may even be reduced. As the population of an economy becomes wealthier, many prefer to live in the cleaner and quieter environments of the countryside. Thus, employees need to commute into cities for work, for which the necessary requirements, such as public transport or individual car ownership, are only given in more developed countries. Cities in developing countries, on the other hand, still continue to grow. Only the pace is two to five times faster than it was in the European countries during the period of industrialization (Kojima, 1996). Many developing countries in the world are currently experiencing an unprecedented rate of urbanization. It is also clear that, unlike the experience of currently developed countries, the process of urbanization presently taking place in developing countries is not so much due to rapid industrialization. Rather, it is the consequence of growing population pressure on land in the rural areas (Kassahun, 2000). Urbanization has largely taken place as a result of the “push” of rural inhabitants to urban areas (International Labour Organization 1998). Like many developing countries, Ethiopia remains among one of the least urbanized countries in the world. In Ethiopia, Informal settlement is socially, politically and economically growing problems, usually referred to residential areas where a group of housing units have been constructed on land to which the occupants have no legal claim or which they occupy illegally. Using the Ethiopian
Rural communities rely heavily on the wellbeing of the local economy and employment within the community. Due to the geographical location of rural and remote communities, these towns tend to have employment issues due to a number of external factors. As a lot of smaller, remote towns rely heavily on a main source of industry to create employment opportunities and attract more families to boost population, addressing these issues is vital. For example, in relation to education, schools create jobs for teachers. However, rural towns do struggle in attaining these extra teachers due to lack of resources, access to utilities etc. This essay will look further into these issues of employment in rural and remote communities and how these factors can affect schools, teachers, students and families.
In essence, it is not understood whether it is based on the rural areas, the state, or the urban areas. Nonetheless, the changes in the relationships are thought to be based on the rural development in China over the last four decades.
Infrastructure can make a country a much more livable place. This is especially true in India. When the British colonized India, they improved the quality of life by building and repairing. J.A.R. Marriott said in The English in India, “Means of communication
One of the advantages in rural development is literacy rate is increasing in rural areas. The literacy rate of people in rural areas is poor if compare to the people who live in city. This is because there is less educational introduce in the rural areas. The rural areas are lack of educational because they do not have enough resources to construct educational building such as school. The children in rural areas should study to gain knowledge and get use of it. So, the advantage of rural development to the population is the literacy rate increase among the people in rural areas. When there is implementing of construction project, the most important building which must be constructed is school. This is to give convenient to the people to study and
Within first-world nations, the change has been happening slowly over many decades. The developed institutions within these nations have been able to modify their own methods in order to be in congruence with the new world of networks. However, undeveloped nations (and especially rural parts of these nations) have not been making the slow transformation towards the soon-to-be technologically dependent network society. Therefore, conversion towards the network society is easily seen. The questions that remain to be answered are, can these people-previously unexposed to high technology-adjust to the dramatic changes in economic and social organization. And furthermore, is it feasible and beneficial to take away the focus from physical infrastructure development (roads, buildings, telephone wires) and implement technological infrastructure?
When one hears the word rural, the first thing that would come to mind is small and more on the countryside. Living in rural areas does have its obstacles, especially in the health care force. For rural health care, they provide the same as its urban counterparts, but it does have its limits, which is a downfall. In rural areas, for those who are living there have to face “a unique combination of factors that create disparities in health care” (A), factors such as economic struggle, the transportations, etc. For those who live in a rural setting, they don’t get as much benefits because the smaller a place is, then the less room there will be to build necessities
The Malaysian Government has continuously allocated a substantial amount of the development budget for infrastructure, rural development and poverty eradication programmes. 7. Massive investments for the development and modernisation of infrastructure facilities and rural development were clearly required not only to cope with the demands of a rapidly expanding economy but also to ensure that the country’s competitiveness in global markets was not compromised for lack of good quality infrastructure. 8. Despite the effort of the part of the Government to develop the rural areas, two factors have to be considered that have an important influence on
The Rural Development Institute (RDI) was first conceived in 1966 when an article about Pacific land reform was brought to the attention of Roy Prosterman by one of his students. The article argued that an effective way for land reform to happen in Latin America was through confiscation and redistribution. Prosterman disagreed with the approach and wrote a rebuttal to the article emphasizing democratic markets and stating that compensation must be given during the process of acquisition (Prosterman, 1966). The article was noticed by the US government and Prosterman was soon called before congress and offered a chance to prove his theory; he would be able to test the merits of his ideas in war-torn Vietnam. Roy’s goal was to give locals the tools required to become self-dependant farmers who could support their families and would therefore be less likely to join the fighting as part of the Viet Cong. From 1970 to 1973, Roy and his new found organization were able to provide over 1 million citizens with plots of land and drastically reduce Viet Cong recruitment in the region (Prosterman, 1970). The lessons taken from his time in Vietnam have allowed Prosterman and the RDI to begin fighting the root causes of poverty and inequality in the poorest parts of India, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa.