Rural Development in South Asia

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The issue of rural development is a persistent and long-standing challenge. The strategy for improving the rural poor has undergone some significant changes along with the changes in the perception of the process of development. The philosophy of development is firmly anchored in the vision that growth alone would be a panacea for all social ills, including poverty eradication. Rural poverty is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon and the poverty processes which entrap the poor are highly dynamic. There is no given prescription for solutions which are valid over time, between countries and even between different areas within the same region in any given country. The policy makers and development practitioners should develop specific instrumentalities in response to specific situations, and adapt these to new situations. This book deals comprehensively with the vast, globally important subject of rural development in South Asian backgrounds. It includes the basic concepts, paradigms, policies, management and latest details about the subject in this region. It is an excellent discourse on South Asian rural development which is valuable to policy makers, researchers, scholars, students, and those who are involved in developmental activities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jitendra Kumar Sharma

Jitendra Kumar Sharma obtained his doctorate under the direction of Canadian Media Tinker, Marchall Mcluhan, and was associated with Mcluhanâ€™s Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto. Guelph and McGill Universities. He has been a visitsing Professosr at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and at present, he is an Academic Counsellor with the Indira Gandhi National Open University Study Centre at Rohini, New Delhi. E has authored India Unbound, Time and T.S. Eliot, Doctor Faustus: A Vedantist Interpretation, Divided Lands of Asia, and Ethics of Journalism in Transition. He has published essays in leading scholarly academic journals in India, Europe and the USA. Professor Sharma is an advocate of interaction between education and technology, and has introduced innovative techniques for imparting training to professional groups, including politicians and administrators in the pioneering days when communication was not a descipline in the Indian universities. He is a freelance journalist and has contributed editorial page articles to leading dailies such as the Hindustan Times, the Statesman, Hamilton Spectator and to political weeklies. He has visited more than sixty countries of the world and organized for a for advancement of human rights.