The World Social Report 2021
Four out of every five people in extreme poverty around the world live in rural areas, many of which are witnessing depletion and degradation of natural resources, climate change and the recurrence of zoonotic diseases, such as COVID-19. In this article, the
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs sets out how rural development can be reset to achieve sustainable development. It calls for moving rural development to the centre of attention, instead of seeing it as an appendage of urban development; ending the rural-urban divide by adopting an
in-situ urbanisation model; ending within-rural inequality; and achieving rural development while preserving the environment. The report shows that new digital and frontier technologies are creating opportunities to achieve the goal of eradicating rural-urban disparity.
http://www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2021/05/World-Social-Report-2021_web_FINAL.pdf
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