Theme & Background

The seminar aims to provide a comprehensive overview of current theoretical and empirical work dealing with social, economic and policy aspects of rural development. As the seminar title suggests, the seminar will focus on the following topics:

• rural governance models and approaches,
• paradigm shift and new approaches in rural development policy design and delivery,
• rural livelihoods and structural change – socio-economic aspects and methods applicable to rural areas,
• tools for evaluating rural development policies.

Experts from a wide range of economic disciplines are invited to provide state of the art papers concerning the topics listed above. As these are all current topics of relevance to rural development policy, the seminar should be of interest to both the scientific community and policy practitioners.