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INAF U6735Issues in Rural Development

Postgraduate course

Project description

Within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (2030), highlighting the need to achieve 16 inter-connected goals for ‘eradicating poverty in all forms everywhere’, the course on Issues in Rural Development is intended to explore the theory and practice of rural development issues and programs at micro and macro levels. By selecting a few cases of chronic poverty and vulnerabilities of rural poor groups around the developing world, discussions will be held on (a) the causes of their conditions in the historical, social, economic and political contexts affecting their lives, combined with (b) the approaches, strategies, structures and processes attempted by implementing agencies to analyze what works and how in what contexts, what does not work and why, and (c) how some of the issues of rural development could be addressed more effectively within the global framework of the SDGs 2030.