Rethinking rural development is a review article by Caroline Ashely and Simon Maxwell. Here we tried to understand about what they are thinking about the future of rural development .

1. Rethinking Rural Development
Caroline Ashely and
Simon Maxwell

2. Group members
Jannatul
Ferdows
Atiqur
Rahman
Aisha
Siddiqua
Saifur
Rahman
Sourav
Sarker
Samsul
Alom

3. Content’s
Introduction
Objectives
Issues addressed
Findings
New terminology
Conclusion

4. Introduction
 Rethinking : To think carefully about something again
especially in order to change a choice or decision.
 Rural Development : Rural development is the process
of improving the quality of life and economic well being
of people living in rural areas.(wikipedia)
 These paper concludes with five general principles and
ten specific recommendation for the future of rural
development.

5. Objectives and other content’s
 As it is a review article so we haven’t found any research
problem, research question and research objective. There is
no clear statement or hypothesis.
 Main objective was to review research works related to rural
development. We think it is a good review article as most of
the issues regarding rural development were addressed.
 The theoretical framework was absent
 The authors didn’t use any Validity and reliability test.

6. Issues Addressed
 Relationship between rural
development and agricultural
growth.
 Future of small farm.
 The past, present and future thinking
 Different narratives and sticking points.
 Multi-sectoral approaches

7. Issues Addressed
 Contribution of Rural non-farm economy.
Strategies for supporting The RNEF:
 Removing general constraints to growth
 Facilitating Urban-Rural links
 Facilitating enterprise growth
 Sector or sub-sector specific intervention
 Implementation issues.
 Poverty issue.

8. Findings-
 Poverty is the main constraint towards rural
development. Poverty reduction rests heavily on
participatory processes.
 Agricultural activity is the best way to reduce rural
poverty. Another option is rural non-farm economy but
it is an expensive one.
 In addition democracy and decentralization are often
presented as necessary conditions for effective rural
development.
 Understanding the diversity of rural areas and the
complexity of livelihood and livelihood strategies are
also necessary.

9. New terminologies –
 Disparities – A great difference.
 Neo-liberal – A modified form of liberalism tending to favour free market
capitalism.
 Paradox - A situation that seems impossible or difficult to understand.
 Militate - A spell of inactivity or laziness.
 Bifurcation - Division of something into two branches.
 Dewy-eyed – Having eyes that are moist with tears.
 Triptych – A picture of relief carving on three panels.
 Prominece – The fact or a state of protecting from something.
 Finnessed – Impressive delicacy and skill.
 Synergistic – Combined power of working together that is greater than the
power achieved by working separately.

10. New terminologies –
 Dichotomy – Partition of a whole into two parts.
 Flatering – Losing strength or momentum.
 Distil – Extract the essential meaning.
 Amenable – Open and responsive to suggestion.
 Liberalisation – The removal of control in order to development.
 Depeasantization – Reduction of peasant activities in land.
 Seriatim – Taking one subject after another in regular order.
 Resource poor – Refers to countries which are relatively developed and prosperous but
which have very few natural resources relative to the size of the economy.
 Disaggregation – To separate into it’s component part.
 Morbidity – The condition of being diseased.
 Preponderance – The quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity or importance.

11. Conclusion
 The world is changing very fast .Our rural community is also
changing . So if we want to have a more developed rural
society where all the facilities will be available then we need
to rethink or think out of the box and throughout the article
Croline Ashley and Simon Maxwell tried to do so .

12. THANK YOU