Rural Development Projects in Latin America: The Need to Integrate Socio-Economic, Political, and Empowerment Lenses for Sustained Impact

IF 1.7 Q2 SOCIOLOGY Societies Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI:10.3390/soc14070131
Raphael Leao, Luis F. Goulao
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Latin America has witnessed a significant influx of foreign aid aimed at fostering development, particularly in rural areas, over recent decades. Despite these considerable investments, persistently high levels of poverty endure, and rural communities have not consistently witnessed improvements in livelihoods. Rural development initiatives frequently achieve their inherent objectives at the output level but less frequently attain the intended outcomes and are seldom successful in establishing the prerequisites for enduring impact over the long term. The existing literature on this topic is extensive but often fragmented, with some scholars examining the context through socio-economic and political lenses, others scrutinizing the intrinsic characteristics of projects, and still others emphasizing levels of empowerment and local participation. This paper synthesizes and critically evaluates key aspects that influence the sustained impact of rural development projects across these three analytical streams. Through an integrative compilation of insights from these disparate perspectives, this work lays the foundation for a comprehensive analysis, shedding light on crucial considerations that may have previously “fallen into the cracks” through an examination of the segmented discourse.
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拉丁美洲的农村发展项目:综合社会经济、政治和赋权视角以产生持续影响的必要性
近几十年来,大量外国援助涌入拉丁美洲,旨在促进发展,特别是农村地区的发展。尽管投入了大量资金,但贫困程度依然居高不下,农村社区的生计也没有持续改善。农村发展倡议经常在产出层面上实现其固有目标,但较少实现预期成果,也很少成功建立长期持久影响的先决条件。关于这一主题的现有文献很多,但往往支离破碎,一些学者从社会经济和政治角度研究背景,另一些学者仔细研究项目的内在特点,还有一些学者强调赋权和地方参与的程度。本文综合并批判性地评估了影响农村发展项目持续影响的三个主要方面。通过对这些不同视角的见解进行综合汇编,本文为进行全面分析奠定了基础,并阐明了一些重要的考虑因素,而这些因素以前可能通过对分段论述的审查而 "被忽略"。
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Societies
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