Infrastructure improvement is one of the driving forces behind growth and structural changes in the village economy … aquaculture. This study relied primarily on secondary village-level data and qualitative insights from focus group discussions in …

This study investigates whether village funds, village-owned enterprises (henceforth, BUMDes), and village original …, and Structural Equation Model (SEM)-based mediation analysis. The findings show that village funds positively and … significantly impact rural development (measured using the village development index). However, the impact of BUMDes on rural …

village development achievements (Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Developing Village Index (DVI)), and (c) the … of a tourist village is able to support the achievement of the Village SDGs. This is in accordance with previous studies …, which found that tourism development can have a positive effect on village economic conditions. In terms of accessibility …

The Tumbuka are normally described as patrilineal where inheritance of property including land, cattle and village … headmanship is from father to son. There is evidence that initially the Tumbuka were matrilineal. In this society, village heads … village headpersons in this patrilineal society. This paper, using data from the Malawi Land Tenure and Social Capital (MLTSC …