Economic linkages between urban and rural regions – what’s in it for the rural?

Rural and Urban Linkages

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Digital Divide between Urban and Rural Regions in China

This research paper evaluates the development relationship between the adoption rate of Information and Communications Technologies (the Internet, mobile phone, pager, personal computer, and telephone) and per capita income gap between the urban and rural areas in China, mainly between 1985 and 2006. The Pearson’s correlation coefficients suggest there has been a strong correlation in the devel...

Oil and Iran Regions Rural Economic Structure Alteration

The oil has gradually obtained a predominant place in national economy since 1950 and nowadays, is the main important resource securing country financial needs. Two questions are the base of this research regarding contradiction of oil rent and traditional economic sectors including agriculture and livestock rearing which always have been intensified. These two questions are as follows: what ar...

Track 2 Urban - Rural Continuum Successful Linkages Between Peri - Urban Food Production and Urban Market

At the core of the current agricultural system is a clear focus on increasedproduction, with increased intensification as the answer to current global societal andenvironmental issues. It is clear to many however that following a business as usual pathwill put increased tension on the already stressed planetary boundaries. Climate change,economic and demographic evolutions w...

Rural-Urban Linkages for Growth, Employment, and Poverty Reduction