ИНТЕГРАЛНИ РУРАЛНИ РАЗВОЈ: КА СКЛАДНИЈЕМ РЕГИОНАЛНОМ РАЗВОЈУ
INTEGRAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT: TOWARD A MORE HARMONIOUS REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the integral rural development and its importance for the policy of a more balanced regional development. Highly emphasised regional disproportions in almost all domains, as well as the long-standing lagging behind in the development of village and agriculture, resulted in faltering and stagnation of total development of the country. Overcoming, this problem calls for applica- tion of a more complex model of developmental policy for the village and rural society, which demand a multidisciplinary approach. Active policy and promotion of integral rural development is not only in the interest of rural communities, but of the society as a whole. This implies that investment in a wide range of economic branches in rural areas is of vital importance for increasing the attractiveness of rural areas, encouragement of sustainable development and creation of new possibilities for employment, especially of young educated people who are ready and capable to accept the new philosophy of development of these areas. Although rural areas in Serbia observed as a whole are highly heterogeneous with respect to economic development, according to the basic parameters of development degree, they lag behind urban and industrial centres considerably, and much more attention should be devoted to this phenomenon in the future.

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