Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum?

This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies. While much progress has been made in understanding the need to look beyond only agriculture for the promotion of productive activities in rural areas, and the ‘institutional vacuum’ consistently identified in the rural non-farm literature is gradually being filled, much remains to be done. One aspect on which more research is p articularly needed is the development of better mechanisms to promote productive investment rather than just social investment and to assess the appropriate level – community, regional, national – at which to do this.

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Main Author: Alberto Zezza, Gero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Kostas Stamoulis and Paul Winters;Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division
Format: Document biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2007
Online Access:https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AI488E
http://www.fao.org/3/a-ai488e.pdf
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