Rural Development: Principles Policies and Management

Rural Development: Principles Policies and Management is a comprehensive textbook on rural development and planning. This book is primarily targeted at graduate and post graduate students of rural development agricultural policy and planning and rural management. The updated content also takes into account training programmes in rural development rural economics rural management and agricultural policy and planning. The book focuses on the basic concepts policy instruments strategies policies and programmes and the management of rural development. In particular it emphasizes the pivotal role of human resources as both a means and an end of development. Recent developments and progress of rural development programmes like equity and growth oriented programmes and natural resources and infrastructure programmes are documented and analysed.