Changing Village Structure-Impact of Rural Development Programmes

Changing Village Structure Impact of Rural Development Programmes V M Rao The economic investigations of rural programmes tend to be rather myopic remaining preoccupied with increases in employment, income, assets, etc. The purpose of this paper is to argue that looking at the rural programmes from the broader perspective of changing relative positions of rural strata would provide deeper understanding of rural change and, also, bring the empirical studies closer to the emerging theoretical issues in development economics.