Rural Public Services: International Comparisons

ISBN-13: 9780367301835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 362 str.

Richard E. Lonsdale; Gyorgy Enyedi

Opis

This book focuses on rural service problems in eighteen developing countries, focusing on the objectives of service provision and on specific government programs. It examines their rural public service problems, service provision objectives, specific programs and the results.

Spis treści

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW -- 1 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE OF STUDY / Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyorgy Enyedi -- 2 A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE ON RURAL SERVICE PROVISION: A SYSTEMS APPROACH / Bryan H. Mas sam and Ian Askew -- 3 IDENTIFYING SERVICE PRIORITIES OF RURAL CONSUMERS / Barry Smit and Alun E. Joseph -- PART TWO: THE EXPERIENCES OF ADVANCED CAPITALIST NATIONS -- 4 THE ECONOMICS OF RURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES IN THE UNITED STATES / James R. Nelson, Luther Tweeten, and Gerald Doeksen -- 5 THE UNITED STATES: THE SPECIAL CASE OF ALASKA / Gerald A. McBeath -- 6 THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES IN RURAL ONTARIO, CANADA / Jackie Wolfe -- 7 SERVICE DECLINE AND POLICY RESPONSE: RURAL BRITAIN IN THE 1980s / Malcolm J. Moseley -- 8 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY / Peter Graf -- 9 THE SUPPLY OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN FINNISH LAPLAND / Eino Siuruainen -- 10 DELIVERING ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN RURAL ISRAEL / Avinoam Meir -- 11 IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN RURAL JAPAN / Hiromichi Nagashima -- 12 AUSTRALIA: THE DILEMMA OF SPARSE POPULATION AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS / John H. Holmes -- PART THREE: THE EXPERIENCES OF SOCIALIST NATIONS -- 13 SPATIAL AND STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF RURAL SERVICE PROVISION IN THE LITHUANIAN S.S.R. / Stasys K. Vaitekunas -- 14 ORGANIZATIONAL TRENDS IN RURAL PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION IN HUNGARY / Gyorgy Enyedi -- 15 THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES IN RURAL CHINA / Deborah Davis-Friedmann -- 16 RURAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN SOCIALIST CUBA / Sergio Roca -- PART FOUR: THE EXPERIENCES OF THIRD WORLD NATIONS -- 17 PUBLIC SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS OF MEXICO / Silvana Levi de Lopez -- 18 DELIVERY OF SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS OF HONDURAS: INSTITUTIONS AND PROBLEMS / Neale J. Pearson -- 19 PROVISION OF BASIC NEEDS IN RURAL AREAS OF INDIA / Gopal S. Kulkarni and Prabhakar R. Karmarkar -- 20 RURAL SERVICE DELIVERY IN INDONESIA / Thomas R. Leinbach -- 21 ACCESS TO RURAL SERVICES IN NIGERIA / Michael L. McNulty, M. A. 0. Ayeni, M. 0. Filani, and G. 0. Olaore -- PART FIVE: CONCLUSION -- 22 SUMMARY GENERALIZATIONS ON RURAL PUBLIC SERVICES / Richard E. Lonsdale -- About the Contributors -- Index.

O autorze

Richard E Lonsdale, Gyorgy Enyedi