ABSTRACT
Poverty in the LDCs was and still is mainly rural. … For many years, until about the 1970s, rural development was widely neglected. … Rather than being permanently immersed in a subsistence economy, the rural poor are increasingly dependent on incomes derived from marketing their labour, often in nonagriculture activities. These developments, which are especially powerful in China, stress the need for a more diversified approach to rural development.
