Interest in the special problems of rural areas and concern with
rural development in general have increased substantially
throughout much of the world in the years since about 1960.
Attesting to this has been the dramatic increase in attention to
rural problems in the scholarly and popular literature and by
government agencies. At first the dominant focus was on development
projects and the creation of new jobs. It was not long, however,
until other related issues came to the fore, in particular the
availability and quality of public services essential to achieve
economic growth and improvement and having a direct bearing on the
well-being of rural peoples. Most nations of the world have
developed plans and launched pro-jects to improve rural public
services and narrow urban-rural dif-ferentials in their provision.
As one would expect, there have been great differences between
nations in the severity of problems, foci of attention, program
strategies and their general effectiveness, and degree of
commitment and effort. Given this diversity, it seems ap-propriate
to examine and compare rural service problems and efforts to
ameliorate them in a sample of contrasting societies. Implicit is
the conviction that (1) all nations can learn at least something
from the experiences of others, and (2) by taking an international,
com-parative view of the subject, certain generalizations can be
established.
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