Rural development according to regional planning strategies case study (Egypt and Saudi Arabia)

Abstract

The rural territories of the third world are important demographic factors, which indirectly contribute to the social balance as the countryside means the strategic depth of the society, because it is responsible for food-safety and for securing the unqualified labour. Unfortunately, the majority of the developing countries could not reach that balance as they ignored rural economy, which is reflected in agriculture and animal husbandry. Investment in these branches was under the standard and what they reached was developed in the form of suggestions suppressing social demands and was without promoting the well-being and developmental projects of the rural population. However, some countries realized the importance of this role and elaborated developmental strategies for improvement, thus they reached the developmental balance between the poles of urban and rural societies and provided fertile field for participation of the rural population and for the social and economic development as well. Recently the interest in the developmental strategy towards the Egyptian and Saudi-Arabian territories has increased. With elimination of the developmental differences between the communities of rural and urban population and with increasing the social and economic level of the countryside, the aim was to reach the social and economic balance soon in order to let the countryside participate effectively in the developmental processes.