Rural development has been a major axis of development polocies in the post revolutionary Iran.
This papet investigates the long term effects of the post- revolutionary rural policies on rural people by focuding on their incime, wealth and welli being and through using ex-post-facto comparative method in six selected villages in the province of Eastern Azeraijan. The study concludes that despite near two decades impolementation of different rural process of rural change tend to benefit the villages whit higher development potentialities and the villagers with higher socio- economic back grounds.
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