While policies and institutional arrangements aimed at intensification and growth of the Indian agriculture sector are inevitable for the livelihoods and food security of the country's vast population, the inclusion of land-constrained farmers especially women, therein requires certain...

The precarious production environment in rural areas limits the services of traditional finance and rural logistics. Digital inclusive finance is expected to alleviate some major drawbacks enabling financial services to contribute to rural logistics development. Using panel data from 31...

Migrants preferring to settle in the villages abutting urban centers avoiding slums and ghettos in metropolitan cities influences and changes rural demographics as migrants outnumber the host denizens who shift to the cities to leverage urban amenities for quality life and convenience. In this...

This conceptual paper looks at current issues faced in rural development and especially unsustainable socio-economic advancement and makes arguments and suggestions to mitigate the impending worsening of the situation, towards the socio-economic upliftment of rural communities. It is critical to...

"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...