Transportation infrastructure is crucial to China's economic growth because it substantially contributes to the holistic development of rural primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. This study innovatively examines transportation infrastructure and urbanization levels to explore, both...

Its’ (KHADI) one great merit is that it solves, as nothing else can, the economic problem of India and removes starvation.If we want the millions to earn a few paises by doing honest and honorable work, the only possible instrument to present them with, in our country, is the gentle and...

Despite managing rapid economic growth and demonstrating poverty reduction, Ethiopia did not achieve growth-enhancing rural transformation. A need to understand how to realize this can be obtained by synthesizing lessons from countries that have already attained it. In light of this, the purpose...

"In Big Rural, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities, deserving of conceptual rethinking and fresh research, policy, and practical approaches for the benefit of both their citizens and their environments."

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Is Human-Capital Investment Necessary to Modernization? The Effect of Rural Polytechnic Training in Dual Agriculture -- Chapter 3. International Factor Mobility and Environment in a Dual Agricultural Economy -- Chapter 4. Rural Dual Economics, Subsidy Policy...

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...

Migration is a phenomenon of increasing global relevance as year by year a growing number of individuals is leaving their home driven by the pursuit to improve the well-being of their households through additional income. While the drivers of international migration and its effect on the...

The Future of Rural Manufacturing provides insights on the transformations that have occurred in manufacturing across rural regions in recent decades. It describes opportunities and challenges in this context, highlighting those relating to climate and demographic change and digitalisation, as...

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Sector plays generally major role in the growth and development of our financial system. After autonomy the Government of India emphasizes on the expansion of MSME sector for brisk Industrialization. India accorded high priority to Small and Medium...

The aim of this paper is to examine the recent employment trends in the unorganised rural non-farm enterprises (URNFEs) in Assam. The analysis based on the National Sample Survey (NSS) 67th and 73rd quinquennial rounds of enterprise survey data reveals that there has been an absolute decline in...

Nonfarm employment plays an important role in absorbing unemployment in rural areas of developing countries. The agricultural transition in Uzbekistan followed by structural transformations in the economy changed the rural economy. Although farm restructuring and farm optimization policies led...

El espacio rural ha sufrido grandes transformaciones en el curso de las últimas décadas, como la disminución de la participación del empleo y el valor agregado agropecuario en el total de la actividad económica, una mayor interdependencia del sector agropecuario con otros sectores como la...

Khadi constitutes an important segment of the textile sector. Khadi has been defined as any cloth woven on handlooms in India from cotton, silk or woollen yarn handspun in India or from a mixture of any two or all of such yarns. The main objectives of the study are to assess the employment...

This research paper discusses about the role and functions of the Non-farm sector in the development of Indian economy. Rural non-farm sector (RNFS) has gained momentum especially after liberalization. It is major objective of the limitation agriculture sector in providing gainful employment to...