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Rural development from a territorial perspective: lessons and potential in sub-Saharan Africa

Quan, Julian and Davis, Junior and Proctor, Felicity (2006): Rural development from a territorial perspective: lessons and potential in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the lessons and potential poverty impacts involved in the application of approaches for building socially inclusive, decentralized and spatially accented approaches to rural (and rural-urban) economic development in South Africa and other experiences making a preliminary assessment of the transferability of LED / RTD approaches to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa such as Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana. In each case the role of the drivers of change, the rural-urban linkages and the livelihood strategies of rural households are emphasized and the kind of social networks and alliances are also considered.

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