Search Results - subject:"Agrarraum"

The impacts of depopulation and climate change on the cost of rural electric services

Li, Liqing; Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Rad, Mani Rouhi; Uz, Dilek - 2026

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Revitalizing rural communities through institutional reform of quasi-markets

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2026

Welfare services such as healthcare, elderly care, and education are key to ensuring quality of life generally, and vital for rural communities across urbanizing countries. While these sectors are largely tax-financed, several countries have established quasi-markets to achieve competition...

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Regionale Entwicklung und Vertrauen brauchen einen sichtbaren Staat vor Ort

Rösel, Felix - 2026

Wo Schulen, Kommunalverwaltungen und Krankenhäuser schließen, zieht sich der Staat aus der Fläche zurück. Dieser Rückzug kostet nicht nur gut bezahlte Jobs und Zukunftsperspektiven, sondern auch Vertrauen in den Staat, insbesondere in strukturschwachen Regionen. In diesem Beitrag zeige ich,...

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Land reform and rural transformation : linking land tenure security to labour reallocation, international migration, and nutritional outcomes in sub-saharan africa

Haddis, Solomon - 2026

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The role of broadband adoption/use in the survival and growth of food and drink micro-businesses in remote-rural Scotland

Gilani, Sayed Abdul Majid; Tantry, Ansarullah; Askri, … - 2026

The purpose of this article is to investigate the drivers and barriers to broadband adoption/use by food and drink micro-business owner-managers based in remote-rural Scotland. This study adopts a mixed methods approach consisting of 141 questionnaires involving rural restaurants, which is then...

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Migration reform and fertility : evidence from rural China

Jin, Wenchao; Jin, Zhangfeng - 2026

How do institutional barriers to migration shape fertility in developing economies? We analyze the staggered removal of institutional barriers to rural-to-urban migration across 283 Chinese cities. We find that reducing these frictions led to a significant and persistent increase in fertility in...

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Banks protecting children : agricultural income shocks, child health, and financial development in rural India

Argyros, Dimitrios - 2026

This study examines the role of financial infrastructure in shaping child health outcomes in rural India, with a particular focus on whether access to rural banking mitigates the adverse effects of agricultural income shocks. Using data from the National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS), I...

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Two-stage evolutionary dynamics of fiscal subsidy reforms : tripartite game analysis in China's biomass energy transition

Zhang, Yunsheng; Wang, Shuting; Zhou, Ruomeng - 2026

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From phone access to food markets : how mobile connectivity is transforming rural livelihoods in West Africa

Ariolle, Joël C.; Carroll, David Alexander, II - 2026 - Update January 2026

We show that mobile connectivity transforms household livelihoods in ways that foster food market integration in WAEMU countries. Using cross-sectional data on nearly 60,000 households and 146 food products traded across 5,000 enumeration areas in eight member states (2018-2019), we combine...

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The socio-spatial making and breaking of the rural commons in Hong Kong

Ng, Mee Kam - 2026

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