Chapter 19 Review Questions

Rural Development
  1. Describe the integrated rural development (IRD) approach and include mention of some of its weaknesses.
  2. Discuss Ester Boserup’s views on rural transformation.
  3. Describe the connection between “rural” and multi-locational households.
  4. What is the two-sector theory?
  5. How can rural contexts be distinguished worldwide?
  6. What are the three different “rural worlds” found in the 2008 World Development Report: Agriculture for Development?
  7. What does the 2008 World Development Report present?
  8. What is the importance of the technological change for the rural development?
  9. What changes did the publication of Transforming Traditional Agriculture bring?
  10. Explain the gendered dimension of household livelihoods.
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