The purpose of this study is to identify barriers to the adoption of new technology in rural settings. Specifically, this paper focuses on identifying and overcoming barriers to the adoption of a medication error reporting system in eight rural hospitals. Prior research has generally focused on barriers to the adoption of new technology in urban areas, medical centers, or large hospitals. The l...

This article presents an integrative theoretical framework of subnational natural resource dependence. I argue that rural dependence represents a special case the core-periphery relationship, where rural, resource-rich labor markets form dual dependency on both global capitalist economy and local environment. occurs because contradiction between spatially fixed resources mobility capital prompt...

This paper investigates the interrelationship between urbanization, structural transformation, and post-2000 Chinese housing boom through lens of a dynamic spatial equilibrium model that features migration rich market structure with mortgages. Urbanization transformation emerge as key drivers China's house price boom, while at same time rising prices impede these forces economic transition. Pol...

The paper discusses the institutional reforms for rural electrification (RE) in Thailand and Bangladesh and analyses the impacts of private sector participation in electricity generation and tariff reforms on the poor in Thailand. RE program in Thailand, initiated in 1977, increased electricity access by rural households from 7% in early 70s to 97% by 2000. In Bangladesh the RE program, initiat...