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rural livelihood
SHAREWORLD OPEN UNIVERSITY
LILONGWE CAMPUS
FACULTY OF CONSERVATION, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

COURSE : SOCIAL ECONOMICS OF RURAL LIVELIHOOD

CODE : ERL213 LECTURE : FRANCIS UNGAPEMBE STUDENT : GIFT KAPOTA YEAR : 2 ASSIGNMENT : Seven
QUESTION : Discuss the role of government in promoting socio-economics of rural livelihood
DUE DATE : 7 September 2013

DATE SUBMITTED: 2 September 2013

Government has a role to play in as far as promoting socio-economic for rural livelihood as the government is there for the people and it has to do anything possible for its people to live better life, government can promote socio-economic for rural livelihood through the implementation of different project and formulating policies that promote better living standards for the rural community. Socio-economics is the social science that studies how economic activity affects social processes. In general it analyzes how societies progress, stagnate, or regress because of their local or regional economy, or the global economy.
Government can promote socio-economic of rural livelihood through promoting some of these strategies and programs that are aimed at improving the welfare of the rural people in general. And these include; integrated rural development, irrigation and water development, better market access, land reform programs and better social service delivery
Rural integrated development: The integrated development approach emphasis is to bring all necessities at one locality include availability of hospitals, stadiums, roads, banks and court required for rural development moving. The management system may be highly authoritarian credit may be designed to provide an important role for local people in planning, decision making and implementation of the programmers. The main emphasis is on rational

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