This study evaluates the impacts of a community-based development program on the economic welfare of rural households in Afghanistan. Using a randomized experiment data collected by National Solidarity Program (NSP), this paper uses Ordinary Least Square Method (OLS) to eliminate the selection...

Iran is suffering from groundwater resources depletion through the excessive subsidized electricity for water pumping and the resulting disproportionate water consumption in agriculture. The creation of an alternative income sources for farmers and elimination of heavy subsidies for groundwater...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not livelihood diversification strategies are significant predictors of rural households’ farmland management practices. To this end, the two-limit Tobit econometric model was employed to analyse the nexus between livelihood diversification...

This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor in the rural areas, followed with a discussion of the poor in the informal sector. It then, brings these two sectors together, with an examination of the poor and the...

Die Bedeutung des Kulturtourismus in ländlichen Regionen nimmt seit mehreren Jahren erfreulicher Weise zu und trägt zur Belebung vieler kleiner Orte bei. Katja Drews stellt mit ihrer hier vorgelegten Studie drei kulturelle Angebote aus diesem Bereich vor und fragt danach, wie stark und in...

The rural non-farm sector plays an important role in diversifying income for rural households in developing countries and has the potential to emerge as a major source of employment. In some cases it has outgrown the agricultural sector, in part due to the expansion of credit through...

Die Verfügbarkeit von IT-Akademikern und Breitbandinternet ist elementar, um die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung erfolgreich bewältigen zu können. Ländliche Regionen weisen jedoch einen riesigen Rückstand im Vergleich zu Städten auf – und ihre Probleme sind zum Teil hausgemacht.

This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Voraussetzungen dafür erfüllt sein müssen, damit sich Naturschutzvorhaben, die Nutzungsverzichte und Veränderungen der gewohnten Landbewirtschaftung verfolgen, als regionales Anliegen etablieren können und nachhaltige Entwicklungen...

Analysis of livelihood strategies can aid to understand and resolve problems associated with vulnerability to poverty and food security. This paper aims to identify and describe the changes in rural livelihood activities by using household data for 2013 and 2014 collected in Stung Treng,...