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Title:	A study on the impacts of rural transformation programme: a case study on the Rural Transformation Centres (RTC) of Perak and Kelantan, Malaysia
Authors:	Shawon Muhammad Shahriar (P69923)
Supervisor:	Chamhuri Siwar, Prof. Emeritus
Keywords:	Urbanization -- Malaysia Rural development -- Malaysia Malaysia -- Economic conditions Malaysia -- Social conditions Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	21-Nov-2016
Description:	Rural Transformation Centre (RTC), implemented by the federal government of Malaysia, is among the third generation of the rural development programmes in the country. RTC is a site to implement some integrated initiatives for the rural communities within 100 kilometre radius of the sites. There are eight major initiatives under the RTC implementation programmes, which are: training of rural population; setting up of 1Malaysia information kiosks; high-value agriculture initiatives; agro-food products processing; agricultural produce supply chain management; university cooperation; food safety and pharmaceuticals services; and rural population financial facilities. RTC brings a unique opportunity for members of the local community to benefit from a myriad of initiatives and activities related to their livelihood and wellbeing within the same premises. Despite some challenges, the RTCs have enormous potentials to address many important aspects of rural development, particularly through facilitating business and economic activities, and by ensuring enhanced accessibility of various government agency services. This empirical study is an attempt to assess the impacts of these initiatives of the RTC upon members of the local community surrounding RTC Perak located at Gopeng and RTC Kelantan located at Kota Bharu, focusing especially on the actual enhancement of services of the government agencies for the community members and the level of satisfaction on the quality of these services, role of RTCs in facilitating business activities for the local entrepreneurs, and on the overall socioeconomic impacts of the programme. The primary data for the study was collected from three distinct groups of respondents: community members (182 respondents), entrepreneurs engaged in business activities at the RTC premises (55 respondents), and personnel working for various government agencies with the RTC premises (15 respondents). The results of this study are based on primary data only. To draw inference, it uses both descriptive and econometric analyses based on cross sectional data sets. This study concludes that establishment of the RTC is a positive initiative from the part of the government in the direction of enhancing accessibility for various services of the government. However, in contrast to RTC Kelantan, entrepreneurs at RTC Perak are facing some serious challenges in terms of sustaining their business activities. Besides these potentials and challenges, the results of the study indicate that almost 40 per cent of the beneficiaries from the RTCs are residents of urban localities, and the remaining 60 per cent of the beneficiaries come from rural communities. Based on these findings, this study provides some policy recommendations and action plans for the relevant stakeholders to address the current challenges and to further strengthen the existing strengths of the RTC. It is expected that the government, the executing authorities of RTC Perak and RTC Kelantan, and future researchers will benefit immensely from the findings of this study.,Certification of Master's/Doctoral Thesis' is not available,Master of Arts
Pages:	172
Call Number:	HC445.5.S489 2016 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Institute for Environment and Development / Institut Alam Sekitar dan Pembangunan (LESTARI)

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