Klappentext: Regional planning has come of age. In country after country it has become part of the established machinery of government, a necessary function of increased centralization. Yet precisely at the very moment when the need for regional planning is accepted almost universally,...

The present work discusses possible methodological approaches for the assessment of employment effects of rural development measures. A special focus is on measures of the so called integrated rural development. Methods that are considered non-appropriate are considered nevertheless. Therefore,...