Case Study Analysis

Hankyung National University

Case Analysis on Community B in Country I

Rural Planning and Development
Prof. Dr. Sang Bong Im

By Kyan Htoo

Fall Semester October, 2010

1.0 Case Study Analysis on Community in Country I

Classification | Community B |
Urbanization Rate (%) | 30 |
Endowed resources   * Human     * Natural | Aging index 20Landscape (poor) |
Characteristics of agriculture   * Average farm size   * Farm HHs ratio   * Agricultural mechanization   * Agricultural marketing channel   * Agricultural processing (Sales and employment) |     * 0.8 ha   * 98%   * 4%   * Gov’t   * 0 |
Rural Tourism (Sales, employment and visitors) | - |
Infrastructures   * Housing (+30yrs)   * Roads (pavement rate)   * Water (Piped rate)   * Sewage (rate)   * Community facilities |     * 50%   * 5%   * 0%   * 0%   * 1 |
Welfare service   * Health |     * 8km |
Others   * Per capita income   * Gini   * Hygiene   * Nutrition |     * $ 5000   * 0.6   * Poor   * poor |

2.0 Goal

The objective is to increase food security and income of the community through enhancement of livelihoods of the community in ten years.

3.0 Vision

Our vision is to narrow the gap of living standard between urban and rural.

4.0 Strategies

  * Educating the people for human resource development
  * Establishment of hospitals
  * Building transportation
  * Improvement of water utilization efficiency
  * Improvement of sanitation
  * Establishment of agricultural processing industries
  * Construction of dams for agricultural purpose
  * Development of rural tourism

In the human society, human resource development plays the most indispensible role in the development of community. For instances, South Korea and Singapore are not rich in natural resources. They, however, can upgrade their nations in terms of all-round development through their human resource development. In this regard, human resource is very reliable as the aging index is just... [continues]

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