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Engineering rural development

Communications of the ACM, 2009
Information systems enable rural development by increasing the accountability of nongovernmental organizations.
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Rural development

2015
This book offers a perspective on rural development, by discussing the most influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not present a silver bullet. Rather, they give students, researchers, community leaders, politicians, concerned citizens and development organizations the conceptual tools to understand how ...
van Assche, K.A.M., Hornidge, A.K.
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Rural Development and Rural Policy

1998
Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majority of the world's poor located in rural areas, the resilience of rural poverty in industrialized countries, and a significant share of environmental degradation the byproduct of rural poverty, the design of effective rural policies remains an important ...
De Janvry, Alain, Murgai, Rinku, Sadoulet, Elisabeth, De Janvry, Alain, Murgai, Rinku, Sadoulet, Elisabeth   +5 more
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The Politics of Rural Development in The Netherlands

2017
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de Haan, H.J., Goverde, H.
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Agriculture and Rural Development

2018
It is only within the last decades that the rural population of the world was overtaken by that of the cities. Thus, any economist working on a topic in economic history needs to take agriculture seriously. This chapter discusses the significance of agriculture since its invention during the Neolithic Revolution, and highlights the role of agriculture ...
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Rural Development and Rural Change

1978
A whole chapter of rural planning failures in Africa and the faltering progress of the Green Revolution in South-east Asia draw attention to the fact that in general the treatment of rural development problems in less-developed countries has been at best heavy handed and at worst grossly inept.
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Rural Tourism and Rural Development

1992
There is a renewed degree of interest in rural development. Despite this interest, and some positive action at various levels, there is little by way of a successful blueprint for rural development. As one reviewer of research (in Europe) has stated “durable generalisations (about rural development) are scarce” (Whitby, 1986).
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Rural Electrification and Rural Development

2012
Recent interest in rural electrification has emphasised the importance of linking its development with productive uses for energy and poverty reduction. This has been viewed as necessary to increase the pace of rural electrification and reduce its concentration on a relatively small number of developing countries.
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Infrastructure and rural development: Household perceptions on rural development

Progress in Planning, 2008
Abstract This paper proposes a household model that relates various development interventions, such as infrastructure, to rural development. The model is then estimated using data from a household survey in which rural development outcomes are measured in terms of a perception scale.
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Rural research for rural development

Geoforum, 1976
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