Rural development strategies: the South Asian experiences
Rural development is a subject on which he countries of South Asia can benefit substantially from each other's experiences. They share many common features interms of agricultural-cum-rural character of their economies, pressure of population on land, dominance of subsistance farming, influence of monsoon on agricultural production and so on. Even the approaches and strategies for rural development followed in these countries exhibit good deal of similarities. But the details of these development programmes should vary from country to country and within a country from region to region depending upon Physico-climatic and socio-economic conditions. The size of the programmes, measured in terms of quantum of
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