The
world bank sector policy paper 1975 sees rural development as an economic
issue, that of raising the low levels of rural incomes, through agricultural
modernization.
Anger
(1973), defines rural development as:
Strategies,
policies and programmes for the development of rural areas and the promotion of
activities carried out in such areas as rural crafts, fishing, building and
social infrastructure with the ultimate aim of achieving a fuller utilization
of available physical and human resources and thus higher incomes and better
living conditions for the rural poor and effective participation of the latter
in the development process.
According to Mabogunje (1981), quoted
by Ukwu I. Ukwu (1983), rural
development is concerned with the improvement of the living standards of the
low-income population living in rural areas on a self-sustaining basis.
Rural development involves a process
by which a set of technical, social, cultural and institutional measures are
implemented with and for the inhabitants of rural areas with the aim of
improving their socio-economic conditions, to achieve harmony and balance at
the state, national and the regional levels. Ekong (2003).
Rural development in Nigeria was
viewed as the same with agricultural development. It therefore goes beyond this and covers
issues relating to social, institutional and physical infrastructure.
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