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Rural Public Services: International Comparisons

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Rural Studies Series

Rural Public Services: International Comparisons

edited by Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyrgy Enyedi

Rural areas worldwide experience special difficulties in providing critical public services, such as health care, education, communications, transportation, electric power, and police and fire protection to their residents. Because of dispersed populations, these areas frequently suffer from a combination of higher per capita delivery costs of such services with a generally lower per capita income base, in conjunction with sociopolitical isolation. Thus, service standards are usually lower, perpetuating rural-urban discrepancies. In most nations, governments have initiated programs to provide rural services; however, there are great variations in the kind and degree of governmental concern and no consensus as to which services are essential.

The authors of this book systematically look at rural service problems in eighteen countries, focusing on the objectives of service provision and on specific government programs. In each case they assess the effectiveness of the programs and identify where serious service delivery problems still exist. This cross-national analysis allows an evaluation of the nature and extent of rural service problems, how and why government efforts to provide services differ in approach and degree, and why some problems are easier to solve than others.

Richard E. Lonsdale , professor of geography at the University of Nebraska, is a U.S. representative to the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Rural Development. Gyrgy Enyedi is head of the Department of Regional Development at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. He is also chairman of the IGU Commission on Rural Development.

THE RURAL STUDIES SERIES of the Rural Sociological Society

Editorial Board

Chairman, David L. Brown, ERS, USDA, Washington, D.C.

Jere L. Gilles, University of Missouri

Denton E. Morrison, Michigan State University

Sonya Salamon, University of Illinois

Marta Tienda, University of Wisconsin

Kenneth P. Wilkinson, Pennsylvania State University

James J. Zuiches, Cornell University

First published 1984 by Westview Press

Published 2019 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-50398

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28637-8 (hbk)

Contents

Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyrgy Enyedi

Bryan H. Massam and Ian Askew

Barry Smit and Alun E. Joseph

James R. Nelson, Luther Tweeten, and Gerald Doeksen

Gerald A. McBeath

Jackie Wolfe

Malcolm J. Moseley

Peter Grf

Eino Siuruainen

Avinoam Meir

Hiromichi Nagashima

John H. Holmes

Stasys K. Vaitekunas

Gyrgy Enyedi

Deborah Davis-Friedmann

Sergio Roca

Silvana Levi de Lpez

Neale J. Pearson

Gopal S. Kulkarni and Prabhakar R. Karmarkar

Thomas R. Leinbach

Michael L. McNulty, M. A. O. Ayeni, M. O. Filani, and G. O. Olaore

Richard E. Lonsdale

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Guide

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 projects to improve rural public services and narrow urban-rural differentials 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 appropriate 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, comparative view of the subject, certain generalizations can be established.

This book chronicles and analyzes the experiences of 17 nations with differing economic systems, levels of development, and natural environments. Authors from or very familiar with these nations systematically examine their rural public service problems, service provision objectives, specific programs and the results, and where more serious problems remain. The book brings together material on a subject for which the literature is highly diverse and widely scattered in origin. The papers presented are original and most were commissioned specifically for this project.

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