The report highlights the diverse challenges facing rural areas, their unused potential, and the inability of sectoral policy alone to address these challenges.

The report highlights the diverse challenges facing rural areas, their unused potential, and the inability of sectoral policy alone to address these challenges.

Three billion people live in rural areas in developing countries. Conditions for them are worse than for their urban counterparts when measured by almost any development indicator, from extreme poverty, to child mortality and access to electricity and sanitation.

This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas. Specifically, it documents the characteristics of these partnerships and the factors that can hinder as well as enable rural-urban co-operation.

OECD's review of rural policy in Quebec makes a series of recommendations to address policy challenges in social development, stabilisation, and the environment.

This report looks at rural policy in Chile, examining the main trends in rural regions, policies and governance arrangements.

This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas.