INDEV101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rural Development, Sub-Saharan Africa, Meiji Restoration

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: International Development
• Course: INDEV101
• Professor: Prateep Nayak

Document Summary

Intro (aspects for reference, what the lecture covers) Most of the (cid:449)orld(cid:859)s poor are still (cid:858)rural(cid:859) Diversity and complexity of rural livelihoods and environments. Ele(cid:448)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the (cid:374)otio(cid:374) of (cid:858)ruralit(cid:455)(cid:859)- diversity and uniqueness. Challenges of integrated approaches to rural problems and development. Oda targeting the rural sector continues to decline in absolute and relative terns. Rural poverty was/is not acknowledged in mdgs and sdgs. Participatory approaches to rural development- merits and limitations. The a(cid:373)(cid:271)iguit(cid:455) of (cid:858)rural(cid:859) a(cid:374)d (cid:858)ur(cid:271)a(cid:374)(cid:859) categorical divisions, not very straight-forward. Whenever rural is defined, it is always in relation to urban and how it projects itself: material, in opposition to urban space (spatial identity), the location, physical space, visible objects and makes. The (cid:858)rural(cid:859) exists in 2 linked forms: sense to you, concrete in their existence that cause you to define it is rural ex. cows, houses.