Social cooperatives, which are an important pillar of the solidarity economy, have become increasingly popular and common in Hungary over the past 10 years, especially in disadvantaged settlements, where the administrative burden of public employment is outsourced to social cooperatives....

Infrastructure improvement is one of the driving forces behind growth and structural changes in the village economy. This study aims to determine the impact of improvements in rural infrastructure, particularly connecting roads between villages, on the direction of changes in the main income...

Formal financial institutions can have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on informal lending and information networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed network data. Networks shrink more in exposed villages....

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 study investigates whether village funds, village-owned enterprises (henceforth, BUMDes), and village original income in Indonesia (PADes) enhance rural development. We employ three empirical methodologies to analyze data collected from 361 districts across Indonesia. These methods...

The objectives of this research are to identify the distribution of tourist villages in the Central Java Province using a spatial approach and to analyze the current conditions regarding: (a) the comparison of the conditions of tourist villages and non-tourist villages from the input aspects...

We examine a novel hypothesis that roots human prosociality in the need to elicit and sustain help from others for the purpose of raising children, i.e. allomaternal care. We design an economic experiment to characterize the relationship between allomaternal care and cooperative behavior among a...

We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....

Rural-to-urban migration disturbs essential factors of rural development, including labor forces, land ownership, and food production. To avoid late responses to emigration, scholars have begun investigating earlier stages of rural emigration. However, prior studies have focused on a single...

In village economies, small firm owners facing idiosyncratic shocks adjust production by cutting spending and reducing employment. House-holds with whom they trade inputs and labor scale back their own businesses and reduce consumption. As effects reverberate through local economies, the...

Armed groups routinely delegate domains of rule to village customary chiefs--indirect rule. The larger a chief's power over the villagers relative to the group's, the more there is indirect rule. Over time, enabled by the chief's efforts to legitimize the group, the group expands the taxes they...

Chapter 1. Socialist catch-up lessons -- Chapter 2. Learning from Da Zhai in Agriculture, Raising the Zhanqi in the West -- Chapter 3. A rough start for village industry -- Chapter 4. The changing institutional environment and the structural expansion of village industries -- Chapter 5....

Die Kleinstadt als Siedlungstyp "zwischen" Dorf und Großstadt ist ein etablierter Topos in der Forschungsliteratur. Ihre eigene Urbanität ist konzeptionell unterlegt und teils auch empirisch untersucht worden. Durch den fast ausschließlichen Fokus der (deutschen) Stadtforschung, insbesondere...

In India as per the census 2011, 68.84% of the total population live in villages or rural areas, and out of 6,00,000 villages, 1,25,000 villages are undeveloped so there is a need for the emerging concept of the smart village for the redesigning and advance tech-supported building these...

Die Kleinstadt als Siedlungstyp "zwischen" Dorf und Großstadt ist ein etablierter Topos in der Forschungsliteratur. Ihre eigene Urbanität ist konzeptionell unterlegt und teils auch empirisch untersucht worden. Durch den fast ausschließlichen Fokus der (deutschen) Stadtforschung, insbesondere...

Formal financial institutions can have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on informal lending and information networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed network data. Networks shrink more in exposed villages....

The fluctuations in incomes inherent in rural communities can be attenuated by reciprocal insurance. We develop a model of such insurance based on self-interested behaviour and voluntary participation. One individual assists another only if the costs of so doing are outweighed by the benefits...

The village is the lowest part of governance in the national government structure that has the authority to regulate its own territory (autonomous) within the framework of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia. The role of the government apparatus as a public servant became the main focus for the...

In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The interplay of these networks is crucial. We show that a significant health expenditure shock to one household propagates to other linked households via supply-chain and labor...

It is widely recognized that local management of common pool resources can be more efficient and more effective than private markets or top-down government management, especially in remote rural communities in which the institutions necessary for the enforcement of centrally-imposed regulations...

Using data from a field experiment across 500 villages in Afghanistan, we study how electoral accountability of local institutions affects the quality of governance. Food aid distribution was organized to obtain outcomes that are comparable across villages with different structures of...

The village was given a mandate by Law No. 6 of 2014 to manage the government and various natural resources owned, including financial management. In managing Village Poo finances, the village head is required to collaborate with the village council to participate in carrying out the supervision...

The Government of Kayeli village is an integral part of the District government Buru where the administrative elements make the Kayeli village government have to run the administrative tasks strictly in their activities, in fact A involvement in traditional institutions that eventually affect...

The village Kalesang Program is a government business of Buru Regency to improve the lives of the village community with participatory planning patterns that come from the government and society. The Kalesang village includes the planning and implementation of Village development conducted...

Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...

"Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come about as a result of new forms of...