Course Overview

The course is designed to enhance students’ capacity to design rural development policies & strategies in Bangladesh, taking into account employment issues, rural-urban migration, gender planning, and rural power structure.

Course Objectives

The aim of this course is to enable students to design policies and strategies of rural development in Bangladesh. To do so, the course will introduce relevant theoretical and empirical literature on the necessary rural development issues such as rural employment, rural non-farm sector/activities, rural urban linkages, gender, power structure, the role of social capital and rural livelihood. Both mainstream and heterodox approaches will be included to develop students’ capacity to analyse.

 Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

After completing the course students are expected to be able to:

·       Comprehend the rural development policies and strategies of Bangladesh;

·       Analyse rural employment issues in Bangladesh;

·       Analyse rural-urban linkages for creating opportunities for rural people;

·       Identify dynamics of rural power structure and its role on rural development;

·       Comply role of social capital in rural development;

·       Assess rural livelihoods and their sustainability.