Abstract. Digital technological means are developing, the number of Internet users is growing, so marketing activities play a key role for every organization, companies in agricultural economic sphere not developing either. Marketing activity has character an opportunity to attract new consumers and build communications with old customers. If such used, then at present it fraught losses, loss a...

This White Paper sets out the need for financial inclusion of the rural community for India’s development and the important role that the ICT can play in this endeavor. We suggest an integrated framework for the use of the ICT for delivery of rural services in a cost-effective, financially viable and sustainable manner. We identify the major issues in rural finance and indicate the possible way...

The deployment of telecommunication infrastructures is a challenge in many parts of South Africa particularly in the rural areas. The challenge has impact of communities’ members as they do not have network coverage for Internet in some areas. The challenge gets worse with individual telecommunication service provider. Hence there is technological proposal for sharing of infrastructure by the s...

in India, its organization and the progress that has been made since independence. Different components that constitute rural education infrastructure are evaluated for their relative importance in the delivery of effective learning. We also examine the current status of rural education infrastructure in the country and gaps in the provisioning. This chapter also includes a discussion of the ro...

BACKGROUND Health worker shortage and maldistribution are among the biggest threats to health systems in Africa. New medical graduates are prime targets for recruitment to deprived rural areas. However, little research has been done to determine the influence of workers' background and future plans on their preference for rural practice incentives and characteristics. The purpose of this study ...

This paper studies the effects of rural infrastructure development on agricultural production technical efficiency, using data from the second agricultural census of China. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, this paper first estimates agricultural production technical efficiency of each administrative area of China. A Tobit model is then applied to study the effects on agricultural production...

According to the Ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural R&E, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of Iran. In ord...

This paper discusses the practical implementation of the first phase of a systemic framework for the planning of rural telecommunications infrastructure in developing countries. The framework as a whole was developed along the theory of critical systems thinking and consist of three essential phases adapted from Interactive Planning: the formulation of the current reality of a particular rural ...