Abstract:
Rural development refers to the planned efforts undertaken to reduce or eliminate poverty,
enhance resilience, stimulate ecological sustainability, and form capability to encounter these
and other encounters confronted by the non-urban extents in Developing Countries (DCs).
Rural development pursues to expand the eminence of life in the rural extents with
instantaneous determinations to assist growth, efficiency, and well-being of the residents.
Globalization is now generally accepted as an irresistible force affecting every aspect of
human life in today‟s world. Unobstructed trade of goods and services, and prodigious
development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and socio-cultural
integration across the globe appears to be a major consequence of globalization. The
aggressive advancement of globalization coupled with the market economy has been
persistently changing the old concepts, practices and systems of rural development, especially
in the developing countries.
Bangladesh is a vast rural based country. The rural development academy contributes on the
major share of the gross domestic product. Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development
(BARD) was established in 1959 for rural development. The organization has been working
in the field of training and research for rural development since its inception. It has
successfully blended the academic research, training and action research to mobilize the rural
people into highly motivated economic agents. The Academy never considered rural
development to be a playground of novice do-gooders. It continued to maintain rural
development is a professional job which can be learnt only through systematic training and
hard work. But the present performance of BARD in the globalized world needs to be
assessed. This paper has examined the rural development in the era of globalization and it is
an assessment of the performance of BARD.
The objectives of the study are to examine the challenges of BARD to manage its
performance in the context of globalization; assess the factors involved in performance of
BARD in the context of globalization; and suggest recommendations to overcome the
problems facing by BARD to promote rural development.
In this study, a modest attempt has been taken to give picture of the Rural Development in the
Era of Globalization with special reference to BARD‟s Performance. BARD has kept a
continuous impact on Rural Development in Bangladesh. In order to measure the
performance of BARD, the management practices undertaken by BARD, financial
management of the academy, major functions accomplished by the organization, leadership
status of BARD and faculty members‟ performance have been assessed here.
Description:
This dissertation submitted to the Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka,
Dhaka, Bangladesh, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Philosophy in Public Administration.