{"id":16301,"date":"2015-03-25T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/?p=16301"},"modified":"2015-03-25T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:41:05","slug":"rural-development-challenges-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/rural-development-challenges-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Development Challenges in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2015\/03\/featureimageseminarProfIb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16302 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/248\/2015\/03\/featureimageseminarProfIb.jpg\" alt=\"featureimageseminarProfIb\" width=\"600\" height=\"196\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/196;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In essence, rural development is a process and is very much outcome based.\u00a0 It is a process of deliberate induced change led by the state and is multidisciplinary and the outcome is for the betterment of the rural population, for example, improved quality of life, increased income and \u00a0productivity, reduced poverty, better infrastructure, health, education etc.\u00a0 In 1970 the rural population accounts for about 73 % of total population and steadily declined to 38% in 2000, 25.7 % in 2015 and is anticipated to decline further to 22.8 % in 2020 and 20.4 % 9n 2025.\u00a0 Average gross monthly household income of the rural population is less than half of the urban population.\u00a0 The continued decline of the rural population has given rise to issues of out-migration, aging, shortage of labour, social problems especially drug abuse, land fragmentation, lack of employment amongst youth, dependency on government etc.\u00a0 For example, out-migration among the youth especially between the ages of 20-29, in the rural areas is high, about 36.6%.\u00a0 Although poverty has declined significantly since 1970, however, the incidence of poverty is still common in the rural areas and is expected to continue.\u00a0 He also cited the various rural development strategies and \u00a0programmes introduced in Malaysia since the 1960s.\u00a0 Prof. Dr. Ibrahim concluded his presentation by disclosing some of the challenges that will confront the rural areas and society.\u00a0 The Department was also privileged to have Mr. Tang Liang Hong, a retired lawyer and a \u201csenior\u201d postgraduate student of the Faculty, speak and reflect upon the global challenges that Malaysia will indisputably have to face. He made reference to the \u201cnew opportunities and new future\u201d that is likely to be brought about by \u201cthe new silk road\u201d specifically and to call to mind if Malaysia and the rural communities are ready to exploit the new opportunities and future for the betterment of the rural areas and the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The seminar was held on 12<sup>th<\/sup> March 2015 (Thursday) at Seminar Room, Level 3 B03, Faculty of Built Environment and was attended by students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/photos\/2015\/03\/jpbw-monthly-seminar-march\/\" target=\"_blank\">Image Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In essence, rural development is a process and is very much outcome based.\u00a0 It is a process of deliberate induced change led by the state and is multidisciplinary and the outcome is for the betterment of the rural population, for example, improved quality of life, increased income and \u00a0productivity, reduced poverty, better infrastructure, health, education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-slider","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/builtsurvey.utm.my\/fabu2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}