Lessons from the rural transformation: Importance of agricultural growth -- Making Agricultural growth pro-poor and environmentally sustainable -- Tapping the potential of the rural nonfarm economy -- Creating efficient rural financial markets -- Ensuring effective institutions for rural development -- Improving the overall quality of life in rural areas -- Meeting the challenges of the future: Managing globalization -- Managing demographic transition -- Managing the biotechnology revolution in agriculture -- Managing land and water scarcity and degradation -- Building good governance and social capital -- Alternative scenarios to 2010: no room for complacency -- A vision for completing the rural transformation -- Rural Asia study: background -- Transforming the rural Asian economy: the unfinished revolution, summary -- Rural financial markets in Asia: paradigms, policies and performance, summary -- The quality of life in rural Asia, summary -- The evolving roles of state, private and local actors in rural Asia, summary

1. Rural development -- Asia
2. Rural poor -- Asia
3. countries and regions
4. Asia -- Economic conditions