Rural development and population : institutions and policy / Geoffrey McNicholl, Mead Cain, editors ; based on the Expert Consultation on Population and Agricultural and Rural Development convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

McNicholl, Geoffrey.

Cain, Mead.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Conference Name:

Expert Consultation on Population and Agricultural and Rural Development (1987)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Developing countries--Congresses.

Rural development.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Rural population--Congresses.

Rural population.

Developing countries--Rural conditions--Congresses.

Rural conditions.

Developing countries--Social conditions--Congresses.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Population Council : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

Over half the world's people live in the rural areas of the Third World, their well-being directly affected by the pace and pattern of rural development. Demographic change is a major influence on development and, in turn, rural economic and social conditions have important demographic effects. Population-rural development interrelations, however, are not uniform across societies: they are modulated by society-specific forms of social organization and by the rules and routines of economic and political behavior--in short, by institutional structures. The papers collected in this volume explore the various aspects of this institutional contingency, particularly in Asian and African settings, and draw out implications for development strategy. The papers are grouped by the institutional domain with which they are principally concerned: agrarian production systems; labor market institutions; government administrative organization and legal systems; village and community structures; and family systems. The volume thus gives due weight to the policy significance of familiar economic institutions such as agrarian property rights and labor relations but seeks to direct equal attention to other institutional domains, largely neglected in the study of rural development, that are likely to be just as important in governing agrarian economic and demographic outcomes. A concluding chapter looks at the influences on Third World rural development, both positive and negative, emanating from the developed countries.

Notes:

"Population and development review, a supplement to volume 15, 1989."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195068475

0195068491

OCLC:

22210161