Evaluating the effects of good rural governance on the sustainability of rural households' livelihoods

Author

• ahmad hajarian

isfahan

10.30495/jzpm.2022.29740.4036

Abstract

Rural households due to many problems such as drought, floods and sometimes economic problems such as youth unemployment and poor health, their livelihoods are constantly subject to changes and developments that with proper management and good governance can reduce these problems and investments. He gave a stable livelihood to the villagers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of good rural governance on the sustainability of livelihood capital of rural households in Selseleh city. This research is a survey in terms of practical purpose and in terms of how to collect data. The statistical population of the study was the heads of rural households in Selseleh city (N = 10888). Using the Krejcie-Morgan table, the statistical sample size was 379 people. In order to obtain samples in this study, multi-stage sampling method was used. The Cronbach's alpha value is 0.79 for governance indices and 0.78 for subsistence capital indices. Multivariate regression analysis and one-sample t-test were used to analyze the findings. The results showed that good rural governance with an average of 2.839 and livelihoods of rural households with an average of 2.773 were lower than the desired situation. The study of the effects of good rural governance on the livelihood capital of rural households showed that good rural governance has the greatest effect with a beta coefficient of 0.398 on the variable of financial capital and the least effect with a beta coefficient of 0.147 on the natural capital variable. Governance also affects the variables of social capital, human capital and physical capital with beta coefficients of 0.321, 0.266 and 0.256, respectively.

Keywords

• livelihood capital
• governance
• good governance
• rural households
• dynasty city

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