This essay discusses rural development policy making tools/instruments and frameworks. It starts by addressing conceptual issues related to policy, policy making process, policy cycle, and rural development. It also presents rural development approaches, evolution of rural development policies, rural development policy instruments and frameworks, and their application in Ethiopian context.
The main purpose of this essay is to examine the major rural development policy making tools and frameworks in the context of Ethiopia. Key objectives of the paper include the following to: review conceptual issues related to rural policy making and development; evaluate evolution of rural development ideas, practices, and policies; discern rural development policy making tools and frameworks; and review the application of these tools and frameworks in Ethiopian context.
The paper will serve as a material that could provide a precise information that would help readers to have good understanding about conceptual issues related to policy, policy making, rural development, policy making approaches, and policy making tools and frameworks in the area of rural development. It will help to clear the perplexity of equating agricultural development with rural development. Particularly, via this material the following outcomes will be achieve: improved knowledge and understanding of rural development issues; enhanced understanding of rural development approaches; better knowledge about rural development policy making tools and frameworks in the context of developing countries; and improved capacity of using various rural development policy alternatives.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual Issues
2.1. What is policy?
2.2. What is rural development policy?
2.3. Policy making process
2.4. What is rural development?
3. Evolution of rural development policy
4. Approaches to rural development policy
5. Rural development policy making instruments
5.1. General economic and social policy instruments
5.1.1. Fiscal and monetary instruments
5.1.2. Trade and exchange rate instruments
5.1.3. Labor and employment policy instruments
5.1.4. Investment and foreign aid
5.1.5. Population policy instruments
5.1.6. Incomes and equity policy instruments
5.2. Policy instruments related to agricultural and rural development
5.2.1. Rural infrastructure (physical)
5.2.2. Human capital capacity building
5.2.3. Agricultural research and technology development
5.2.4. Instruments related to agricultural Prices
5.2.5. Stabilization and risk in agriculture
5.2.6. Sustainable rural livelihoods
5.2.7. Food and nutrition
5.3. Policy tools related to markets and property rights
5.3.1. Resource property rights
5.3.2. Institutional development
5.4. Policy instruments related to democratic and participatory processes
5.4.1. Decentralization
5.5. Policy instrument related to natural resource use and environmental protection
5.5.1. Direct government action
5.5.2. Control instruments
5.5.3. Economic incentives
6. Rural development policy tools and frameworks in Ethiopia
6.1. Rural development policy tools and frameworks during Imperial regime
6.2. Rural development policy frameworks during Derg regime
6.3. Rural development policy tools and frameworks in EPRDF regime
7. Conclusion
References
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