THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACTS of GLOBALIZATION on THE ROLE PERFORMANCE of LOCAL RURAL ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE IN EGYPT OLD AND NEW LANDS· | ||||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 28, Issue 2, February 2003, Page 1183-1202 PDF (22.28 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2003.244708 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| M. H. Nawar,1; Azza T. Al-bendary2 | ||||
| 1Rural Sociology, College of Agriculture, Cairo University | ||||
| 2Rural Sociology, Colleg& of Agriculture, Cairo University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This study aims to explore the impacts of global changes, which affected the related national institutions, policies and programs, on the responses of local organizations to theses changes. It aims also to pursue the differential effects of the variant internal socio-economic structures of local communities on these responses. The core was to disclose the extent of change of the role perfonnance of local organizations related to rural development that took place in some specific new and old rural settlements the last decade of the twenties century. The study is based mainly on the before-after and cross-region comparative approaches and the application of quantitative techniques. A sample survey was undertaken during the summer and autumn of2001 on a selected random sample of 400 heads of households located equally in two rural areas In Giza governorate and South Tahrir, to represent the old and new lands respectively. The main tool used to collect needed data was a household questionnaire. It was applied along with personal interviews with the selected interviewees. Measures cover the demographic characteristics of the household, the socia-economic conditions, farm data, work conditions of household members, and the perceived changes of role performance of local rural organizations during the last ten years were included In the questionnaire. Change of the performance of the specific roles of local organizations during the last decade from the respondents' point of view was measured. Eight loeal organizations cover a vast range of developmental activities were studied. These organizations are the local administrative units, the agricultural cooperatives, the village banks. the veterinary clinics. the health clinics. the community development societies, the Kindergartens and the rural clubs (youth centers). Differences across time in each of the two rural areas and between the two areas in each period and between the trends of change in both old and new areas were statistically tested using non-parametric techniques. In general, significant changes in the role performance have already occurred in about 75% of the organizations that have economic as well as general welfare related activities. Two main findings related to the changes of the performance of local organizations that resulted from the contextual effects of local society response to the globalization related national institutional changes could be concluded. First, there are significant differences of the role performance of local organizations between the old and the new lands in the past and at present in most organizations. They were mostly better in the new than the old lands. Second, the trend of change was towards more deterioration of the role performance of almost all economic related organizations against some slight improvement of the role performance of the general welfare related organizations . | ||||
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