Rural development has been the core focus of the Bangladesh economic policies since her independence. The rural sector is pivotal to the country’s economic, social and political development. This paper examines the Bangladesh rural development policies, strategies and programs since...

Rural development has been the core focus of the Bangladesh economic policies since her independence. The rural sector is pivotal to the country’s economic, social and political development. This paper examines the Bangladesh rural development policies, strategies and programs since...

Rural development has been the core focus of the Bangladesh economic policies since her independence. The rural sector is pivotal to the country‟s economic, social and political development. This paper examines the Bangladesh rural development policies, strategies and programs since...

The liberalization of the agricultural sector in general and the rice subsector in particular has been a major component of Bangladesh’s structural adjustment program initiated in 1992. However, the government has continued to intervene in the rice subsector. This paper examines whether the...

Definitions are imposed but properties not. The basic question addressed by this paper is how to ‘detect’ objective socio-economic spatial structures instead of ‘defining’ them arbitrarily. The NUTS classification model is rather arbitrary. Not only have the...

The main purpose of this research is focused on understanding the politico-administrative system and structure of rural policy implementation in the third programming period (2000-2006). Case studies have been conducted for selected measures of the Greek Rural Development Programme (RDP) and...

In Greece, there is a fostered policy for the modernization of agricultural holdings. This aims in order at improving productivity and environmental performance within a highly competitive international environment. The main research questions are to find what structural changes are desirable or...