The current article is hoped to clarify, within a spatial critical approach, the proper assessment of the “Decent Life" projects in the sequence of rural development programs carried out in the Egyptian countryside during the recent and contemporary era.
The current distinguished effort is the National Project for the Development of Egyptian Villages works, within the decent life initiative, to improve the living conditions of the Egyptian countryside, is an integrated development initiative for the benefit of the "Egyptian countryside". The plan includes programs to improve infrastructure and services, and increase family awareness. and it will be implemented over the next three years for the benefit of 4,500 villages.
The concept of human poverty has been expanded and is no longer limited to income poverty, but its dimensions have multiplied to include the health and cognitive conditions of the human being. Thus, the multi-dimensional poverty is considered a guide and an objective indicator of the levels of human development achievement.
From this standpoint, the current study relied on determining the levels of comprehensive rural poverty as evidence of the success or failure of efforts aimed at bringing about comprehensive and sustainable rural development.