This paper offers a comprehensive critical review on digitalisation in rural areas, drawing on international and EU policies, scientific and grey literature and real-life examples from two European H2020 research projects. In doing so, it aims at providing a basic conceptual framework...

This paper considers the ‘direct payment system Japanese style’, which has been in force in Japan since fiscal year 2014 when the entire system was reorganised and fused with other current direct payment systems. Our analysis reveals that Japan’s direct payment system focuses on supporting...

The EU Rural Development Policy framework is a result of complex interactions at different levels - European, national, regional and local. Ideally, the decision making process about its implementation should be shared by these different levels of governance. However, the implementation...

A Közös Agrárpolitika (KAP) II. pillérét képező vidékfejlesztés, illetve az annak mozgásterét érintő változások alapvetően meghatározzák Magyarország vidéki térségeinek fe-jlődési esélyeit. Az eddigi vidékfejlesztési beavatkozások az elemzők szerint elsősorban az...

Most rural regions are weak participants in the modern economy. As a result they are often seen as inherently incapable of sustained economic growth. Yet, OECD evidence shows that there are rural regions with relatively high rates of economic growth. Increasing the number of high performance...

The paper underlines that both the incentive and the concrete design of strategies/procedures are powerfully triggered by the environment of the program meant to reduce the gaps, i.e. the individual restricted rural structure circumstances. The transferability of '˜good practice' is given to a...