Question

Role of welfare approach in rural and urban development

Answer 1

The recent increase in emphasis on evi-dence-based policy must be applaudedfrom a number of perspectives. It is goodfrom a social point of view because pol-icy-making ought to be more preciselydeveloped and targeted as a result of takingresearch findings into account; likewise, foracademic and other researchers, more atten-tion to their efforts to understand the mech-anisms and impact of policy interventionprovides an incentive to focus on immedi-ate and relevant questions. However, in thespecific case of rural development there aresome fundamental barriers to analysis andevaluation of policy which need to beresolved.