POLICIES, POLITICS AND ENVIRONMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

A REVIEW

Abstract

The study was undertaken to examine the various rural and urban development policies embraced upon by various administrations in Nigeria, to examine the interplay between politics and the achievement of these policies and as well the impact of eaanvironmental variables on the achievement of rural development policies in Nigeria. The study adopted the Marxist political economic theory as its
theoretical tool. It employs content analysis in the discussion of various variables in the study. The findings of the study among others revealed that successive administration has evolved a lot of policies aimed at developing the rural areas, but none of these policies appears to achieve the intended development at the rural development exhibited by the elite class. The study among others recommended the adoption of bottom top approach to rural development to provide solution to these much lingering problem in Nigeria.