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1981
The Iraqi rural world can be divided into two parts: the urban-controlled sedentary areas and the areas under the control of several tribal aristocracies. Of the former the most important were the generally thin, predominantly agricultural strips around Hīt and other small towns on the line Hīt-Fallūjah, the lands of the Khāliṣ valley and the Diyalah ...
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The Iraqi rural world can be divided into two parts: the urban-controlled sedentary areas and the areas under the control of several tribal aristocracies. Of the former the most important were the generally thin, predominantly agricultural strips around Hīt and other small towns on the line Hīt-Fallūjah, the lands of the Khāliṣ valley and the Diyalah ...
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2001
While quoting statistics to establish the fact that half of the world is now urban, the tendency is to ignore that, by the same token, half of the world is still rural. In fact, it is more rural than urban in Asia and Africa, where development challenges are the most difficult. For instance, 74% of India is still rural — a staggering 740 million people!
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While quoting statistics to establish the fact that half of the world is now urban, the tendency is to ignore that, by the same token, half of the world is still rural. In fact, it is more rural than urban in Asia and Africa, where development challenges are the most difficult. For instance, 74% of India is still rural — a staggering 740 million people!
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Rural Burial in the World of Cities
2006Snodgrass Anthony. Rural burial in the world of cities. In: Nécropoles et Pouvoir. Idéologies, pratiques et interprétations. Actes du colloque Théories de la nécropole antique, Lyon 21-25 janvier 1995. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1998. pp. 37-42. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen, 27)
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The Rural World of an Agricultural Text
Studies in History, 2005This article aims at exploring the potential of the Krsiparāśara, a Sanskrit agricultural work, for understanding the rural society of early medieval eastern India through dense readings by refixing it into its social context. The structure shows the character of the text as an agricultural manual.
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Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World
This volume explores what aspects of contemporary rural life as deeply globalized – and thus implicated in the ongoing, destructive unfolding of colonialism and capitalism – are highlighted and obscured in social, political, economic, and cultural imaginations.Esther Peeren, Tjalling Valdés-Olmos
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Rural electrification in the third world
Power Engineering Journal, 1990The importance of rural electrification (RE) in the development process is recognised in a number of studies and assessments of RE programmes that have been carried out during the past decade, by the developing countries as well as donors of foreign aid.
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Urban Dachas and the Rural World
2020Traditionnellement tournées vers l’approvisionnement alimentaire en temps de crise, les datchas sont aujourd’hui multifonctionnelles et se transforment en résidences secondaires. À Kazan, leur aspect agricole n’a cependant pas disparu, car les dačniki tissent des liens étroits et informels avec les agriculteurs locaux, contribuant à soutenir des ...
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Rural problems, policies and possibilities in a post‐urban world
Regional Science Policy and Practice, 2023Kamila Borsekova, Hans Westlund
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World System satellites: Place-making and inequality during the 1990s rural migration rebound
Journal of Rural Studies, 2021Shaun A Golding
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Rural Economies of the Developing World
Abstract Chapter 4 presents country-specific/micro perspectives regarding the development of the rural economy which bring to light certain nuances that the macro analysis presented in Chapter 3 may not have revealed. The chapter considers three developing nations from the African continent (viz., Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Ghana) and fourManojit Bhattacharjee +2 more
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