Local Organizations


Book Description




Local Organizations


Book Description

Comparison of the performance of rural area local level associations (cooperatives, farmers associations, rural worker organizations, womens organizations, etc.) in developing countries - studies their role as intermediaries, and their neglect in development theory and development research; considers types and tasks of organisations, structural factors, obstacles to their activities and practices to improve them; discusses strategies to strengthen organisations and their contacts with governments and aid institutions. Bibliography, statistical tables.













Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor


Book Description

Research report, rural development, development administration, decentralization, rural institutions, developing countries - rural area poverty alleviation, case study of the USA, role of rural cooperatives and the small farm sector in agricultural development, rural worker organizations, community participation in primary health care, obstacles. Diagram, references, table.