Rural Indonesia: Socio-Economic Development in a Changing Environment

by Theodore van der Pluijm and Erik Thorbecke

The formulation of a rural development strategy for any country is an extremely difficult and multi-faceted task, especially so for a country as large and diversified as Indonesia. Illustrating again how economic growth in urban areas rarely translates into a decrease in rural poverty, this volume identifies the impact of recent changes in the national economy on the rural poor, the interaction between the agricultural sector and the rural population,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814781977
• ISBN13: 9780814781975
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"