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  2. Rural development - Wikipedia

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    Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. [1] Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty , poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and ...

  3. Rural community development - Wikipedia

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    The local rural communities are supported by experienced community development workers. In Pembrokeshire (Wales), Pembrokeshire Local Action Network for Enterprise and Development (PLANED) apply a community-led integrated approach to rural development, in which communities, public sector and voluntary partners and specialist interest groups ...

  4. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

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    Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), before 2015 known as the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU), is a public collegiate university in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established as the Uttar Pradesh Technical University through the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 8 May 2000.

  5. Agrarianism - Wikipedia

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    Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that advocates for rural development, a rural agricultural lifestyle, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Those who adhere to agrarianism tend to value traditional forms of local community over urban modernity. [ 3 ]

  6. Panchayati raj in India - Wikipedia

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    The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee, headed by the Member of Parliament Balwantrai Mehta, was a committee appointed by the Government of India in January 1957 to examine the work of the Community Development Programme (1952) and the National Extension Service (1953), to suggest measures to improve their work. The committee's recommendation was ...

  7. Rural economics - Wikipedia

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    Rural economics is the study of rural economies. Rural economies include both agricultural and non-agricultural industries, so rural economics has broader concerns than agricultural economics which focus more on food systems. [1] Rural development [2] and finance [3] attempt to solve larger

  8. Land reform in India - Wikipedia

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    Other than these state-sponsored attempts of reforming land ownership and control, there was another attempt to bring changes in the regime which achieved limited success; famously known as Bhoodan movement (Government of India, Ministry of Rural Development 2003, Annex XXXIX). Some other research has shown that during the movement, in the ...

  9. Rural poverty - Wikipedia

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    Eradicating rural poverty through effective policies and economic growth is a continuing difficulty for the international community, as it invests in rural development. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development , 70 percent of the people in extreme poverty are in rural areas, most of whom are smallholders or ...