Rural finance strategy / [by Mark Wenner]. p.cm. (Sustainable Development Department Sector strategy papers series ; RUR-104) Includes bibilographical references. Foreword This document builds on Bank efforts over the past year to define a strategy to carry out the mandates of the Eighth Replenishment related to the development of rural financial markets. The 1994 Agreement for the Eighth Reple...

This study examines the effect of 13 strategic management activities on the financial performance of a national sample of 797 U.S. rural hospitals during the period of 1983-1988. Controlled for environment-market, geographic-region, and hospital-related variables, the results show almost no measurable effect of strategic adoption on rural hospital profitability and liquidity. Where statisticall...

Perinatal mortality is high in rural hospitals in South Africa. In part this is due to less than optimal care. This study determined the perinatal mortality experienced by a rural hospital and its clinics. Avoidable causes of death are described and various intervention strategies that effectively and rapidly prevented such deaths, reducing perinatal mortality by one-third, are outlined.

The strategy of the institutionalization and development business agglomerations, in any its analytical aspects (industrial district, local production system, cluster, etc.), has not had great results Spanish regions with low business-density, probably due to difficulty finding an adequate implementation framework administrative, geographic, institutional terms. Based on limitations presented b...

The rural South is poorer and less well educated than the United States taken as a whole and in comparison to other rural American areas. Historically, efforts to overcome this problem have focused on economic development by attracting industries looking for cheap labor, land, and taxes. This has resulted in a rural South that relies on low-wage, high-labor industries to provide employmentindus...

purpose: the main purpose in this paper is, the identifying of ecotourism entrepreneurship differences among rural of this region and ranking them, based on river- valley tourism potentials in ecotourism entrepreneurship and special analysis methods. methodology: for attain to this goal, descriptive and analytical methodology using data from a questionnaire in the form of experts and business o...

One of the possible solutions rural development is Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs). Rural DIHs represent an efficient way improving local environments in a more sustainable way, by affecting businesses, people and authorities. The purpose this paper to analyze concept DIH exploring following elements: business model, digital technology competences, policy instrument. We investigate above-mention...

It is argued, that the National Bank of Romania should not be in the business of providing direct finance to agriculture. The entire system of support for agriculture, in particular the means of providing rural finance and credit needs to be reviewed, so that non-inflationary solutions may be found. This paper will discuss the necessary reforms (directions and modalities) of Romania’s financial...

Karel Charvat [email protected] Rural tourism starts to play important role in the whole agribusiness and rural development. In many remote areas, it starts to be the main economic activity. The development of such kind of activities is now supported as an opportunity for sustainable development of rural areas. Rural tourism is a chance, how to give farmers a new opportunity for profit from the tour...