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...

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...

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...

In the present study, the authors are reflecting upon the concept and the achievements of the part of the agrarian reform dealing with the economic and social development of the village in Moldova, which has as main task "the peasant's social and economic protection", as well as upon the...

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....

Contents: 1. Under the name of tällberg -- 2. Family business as contexts and within contexts -- 3. Social and material, space and place -- 4. Narrative and story and a being-in-the-world methodology -- 5. The siljanstrand, the siljansgården and the green hotel story -- 6. The klockargården...

Chapter 1 Rural Households and Generational Evolution -- Chapter 2 Transition in Household Economic Structure and Its Origin -- Chapter 3 Farmland, Farmland Transfer and The Origins -- Chapter 4 Evolution of Saving and Lending Behaviour -- Chapter 5 Imbalanced Economic Development and Its Origin...

The situation in which the Romanian rural village presents itself is not at all happy, identifying a whole series of problems that may contribute to the worst phenomenon, namely the depopulation of the rural area, characterized by the migration of young people to the big urban centers and the...

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where parents have incomplete information about their child's cognitive skills and there exist competing public and private providers of education. Contiguous village councils in the...

Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests whether partisan alignment exists in the allocation of funds for India's largest social protection...

Vietnam's "Doi Moi", initiated in 1986, translated to high economic growth and rapid urbanization for the country, but also widened the gap between rural and urban areas. Vietnam‟s National Target Program on New Rural Development for 2010-2020 was aimed at developing the rural economy and...

Noch immer bildet die Siedlungs- und Sozialform des Dorfes einen zentralen Bezugspunkt für individuelle und kollektive Erfahrungen und Imaginationen - und zwar auch unter den Bedingungen industrie- und mediengesellschaftlich geprägter Moderne. Das Handbuch präsentiert den aktuellen...