The nature, problems and approaches to rural development -- Rural development in Indonesia: the 'top-down' approach -- Public sector land settlement: rural development in West malaysia -- Rectifying inequality or favouring the few? Image and reality in Philippine development -- Sri Lanka: constraints and prospects in the pursuit of rural development -- Production, poverty and the co-operative ideal: contradictions in Bangladesh rural development policy -- The Korean saemaul unaong: accelerated rural development in an open economy -- Paradise lost? rural development in an export-led economy: the case of papua New Guinea -- Strategies and contradictions in Tanzania's rural development: which path for the peasants? -- Socialist Vietnam: continuity and change -- From subsistence to growth: Chinese strategies of rural transformation -- Rural development: continuity and change

1. Rural development
2. Rural development -- Government policy