report sets out policy recommendations at cross-border, national and regional scales to enhance prosperity and well …

This book examines the major rural developments and the issues that policy makers have been dealing with across the … OECD over the last two decades. The OECD Conference, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2002, on the Future of Rural Policy …, identified the need for rural policies to look beyond agriculture and offer new trajectories of development. It concluded that …

partnerships, redefining regions, rural entrepreneurship, rural policy and regional development, federal coordination, and the … innovative new approaches to rural policy. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan opened the conference by stressing the … when utilizing subsidies as they have exceptionally negative long-term implications. Other presentations discuss regional …

living in Africa and Asia, and a majority of them in rural areas. Young people in rural areas face the double challenge of … age-specific vulnerabilities and underdevelopment of rural areas. While agriculture absorbs the majority of rural workers … in developing countries, low pay and poor working conditions make it difficult to sustain rural livelihoods. Potential …

This book challenges the assumption that the major benefits of investment in rural education accrue to traditional … agricultural activities, such as staples production. Indeed, rural economies are much more complex than such an assumption would … educational attainment achieved. The authors have carried out a survey of rural households in Mexico, taking into account …