The Interacting Interest Relationship of the Donor, the Evaluator and the Quality Supervisor of a Rural Development Project

Author(s):  
Fujiang Sun
2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Grabowski

The policies followed by patrimonial states generally involve playing one group against another and are inimical to long-run growth. Social cohesion or closure among rural groups (tenants, part-owners, etc.) provides a mechanism by which the governing elite are likely to find increased opportunities to behave in a developmental way. More strongly, this rural cohesion or closure often compels them to behave in a developmental manner. Such closure is most likely to result from broad based rural development resulting in the creation of extensive social networks via the operation of intermediaries. The prewar experiences of Japan and Korea with land reform are used to illustrate the argument.


1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Austin E. Bennett

The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics began deliberating upon rural development in early 1970. At that time the President's Commission on Rural Development issued its report, A New Life for the Country, and the Congress was considering various bills in support of better life for non-metropolitan residents. Two circumstances drew our attention.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2644
Author(s):  
Alexandra Peralta ◽  
Scott Swinton ◽  
Songqing Jin

Interventions in rural development projects vary in their likely time to impact. Some offer rapid payoffs after minimal learning and investment, while others offer larger payoffs but entail delays and may require learning or significant investment of labor and capital. Short-term impacts included reductions in stored grain losses due to improved silos and increase in household savings due to increased participation in savings groups. The least poor are most likely to invest labor and capital in slow-to-accrue payoffs like soil erosion abatement from building conservation structures. Our results suggest that targeting project interventions by asset level can enhance impacts.


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