In Great Britain the make-up of rural communities is changing. Young individuals are moving to cities and the population of rural communities is ageing. In this context, it is important to sustain and enhance people’s well-being and community cohesion. The purpose of this paper is to show that...

A rendszerváltás jelentős törést okozott a magyar gazdaság, s ezen belül különösen az ipar és a mezőgazdaság fejlődésében. A gazdaság strukturális átalakulásának eredményeképpen számos üzem bezárt, elköltözött, az ipari területek kiürültek, vagy...

Tanulmányunkban röviden bemutatjuk az Észak-Borsodi LEADER térséget, majd a LEADER vidékfejlesztési programot a térségben megvalósult projektek segítségével. A kistérség 4 mikrotérségből áll, Sajó-, Nádasd- és Hangony-völgye és a Bükki Hegyhát, mely összesen 30...

In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...

The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing the econometric approaches for testing spatial effects in convergenceprocess related to both cross sectional and panel data regressions, a framework that is appliedto a sample of...

Most U.S. farm households have either the operator or spouse working off-farm for wages and salaries or proprietorships. Additionally, off-farm income continues to grow as a share of total household income. Little is known about how changes in local industrial composition impact off-farm labor...

This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.