The Asia-Pacific region is both most densely populated and poverty-ridden and hence calls for all round developmental efforts to improve the quality of life of the vast population. Despite the ...

When Barsha Mishra chose to live with a family in interior Jharkhand, she realised the privileges of her urban life. “The challenges of living frugally and staying away from family and friends was an ...

Rural development has become the fundamental objective before us, particularly in developing countries, as without it we cannot make any headway towards progress. Progress, according to third world ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday launched the Kalaignarin All Village Integrated Agriculture Development Programme, to be implemented at a cost of ₹227 crore aimed at benefiting over ...

The Everatt report’s basic flaw was it conflated and attributed poverty alleviating social transfers like free services and housing and bulk infrastructure projects to the ISRDP that were never part ...

Rural development is a continuous process that goes beyond infrastructure, requiring innovation, new production methods, and community transformation. This perspective was underscored by Lê Minh Hoan, ...

Rural Development Plan: What is it? And which are its innovations? Rural Development Plan is the tool to arrange actions in the agricultural sector for the period 2007-2013, in compliance with ...

In view of predominantly rural character of population, the task of rural development assumes vital significance in Pakistan’s national Socio-economic Development effort. It involves mobilization of ...

Introduction: People living in rural poverty have little concern with the labels of agricultural development, rural development, poverty-oriented rural development, or integrated rural development ...