This study investigates the religious and other beliefs related to the corona/COVID-19 pandemic and how they are related to covid risk perceptions, trust in COVID vaccines, and how these are affected by the religious beliefs, religious affiliations, trust in authorities, generalized trust, and...

The main purpose of this research was to establish measures to prevent demographic structural changes, which would positively influence the process of modernization-sustainable development of the rural household and the Romanian rural area. The starting point of the research was the creation of...

Over the past decades, China has witnessed a fast growth in urbanization promoted by massive flows of rural-to-urban migration. This study investigates the association between urbanization and the subjective well-being of migrant, rural, and urban populations, and also examines how urbanization...

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security,...

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing...

Livelihood insecurity remains a prime concern for low household income countries. To provide secured livelihood to rural poor, the government of India has introduced a self-employment type poverty alleviation programme namely National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). This paper empirically...

Urbanization, by definition, is accompanied by a large loss of rural population. This transition can lead to the problem of population hollowing, or the migration of young to middle-aged adults while leaving only the young and old in rural areas. This paper studies the impact of rural population...

Globalization has resulted in greater interconnectedness among markets around the world and increased communication and awareness of business opportunities in far corners of the globe. More investors can access new investment opportunities and study new markets at a greater distance than before....

In 1991, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International, a leading humanitarian organization, launched a unique savings-based microfinance program called a Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA). Today, the model is being replicated across sub-Saharan Africa. Although...

The purpose of the study was to assess the areas of smart specializations in Polish regions in the context of agricultural and rural development as well as to analyse the significance of production factors in determining a market activity of agricultural holdings. Chapters: Selected directions...

This paper tries to examine the gendered nature of barriers faced by rural women which intersects financial inclusion worldwide. Although financial inclusion for rural women has been linked with poverty eradication and economic empowerment, the delivery of financial products and services to...

The relative impact and interaction of cash transfers and nutrition-related measures to enhance children's growth are unknown. The objective of this paper is to describe and analyze indicators for a baseline population that is participating in a randomized controlled trial with crossover design...

In 1991, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) International, a leading humanitarian organization, launched a unique savings-based microfinance program called a Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA). Today, the model is being replicated across sub-Saharan Africa. Although...

Introduction / Surinder S. Jodhka -- A post-Marxian theory of peasant economy : the school of A. V. Chayanov / Daniel Thorner -- The agrarian question in the twenty-first century / Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros -- Gandhi and agrarian classes / Abha Pandya -- Trends in land relations : a...

We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...

Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in...

Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in...

This paper analyzes the Peruvian-highland tradition of Takanakuy, a public brawling ritual occurring each Christmas to resolve conflicts between local community members. We argue that Takanakuy provides an effective way for locals to resolve disputes that Peru's formal judicial system is unable...

Access to assets and agrarian institutions is of critical importance to the economic viability of rural households. Understanding the extent of this access and how it links to the ability of rural households to employ different pathways out of poverty is thus vital for designing rural...

Metabolic syndrome is a multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease. It consists of dyslipidemia, elevation of blood pressure, obesity and elevated blood glucose. The risk of CVD accompanying the metabolic syndrome is approximately double compared to the risk in the absence of the syndrome....

China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce economic inequities. Yet the impact of this program is mitigated if those eligible fail to enroll. This...

Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks to identify the causal role of schooling in...

The Romanian rural household is the socio-economic unit for which the agricultural activity continues to be the main source of income or at least of supplementing incomes in the form of self-consumption; thus, most rural households overlap the agricultural household farms/peasant...

This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational project transcending the construction of dams. Chapters in this volume are organised around three sections spanning hydropower and resettlement governance, rural livelihoods, and...