Rural landscapes around the world are often characterized by poverty, limited access to financial services, and a lack of opportunities for economic growth. In these marginalized communities, transformative power microfinance has gained significant attention as catalyst rural development. Microfinance, which provides services such small loans, savings accounts, insurance individuals businesses,...

This article explores the empowerment of women through vocational training programmes. The empowerment of rural women is seen as the only means of poverty eradication. Any economic step of empowering of these poor women will make provision to link the nature of empowerment with the skill training required for efficiently running it. It also discusses the outcome of vocational training, type of ...

Health promotion often comprises a tension between 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' programming. The former, more associated with concepts of community empowerment, begins on issues of concern to particular groups or individuals, and regards some improvement in their overall power or capacity as the important health outcome. The latter, more associated with disease prevention efforts, begins by seeki...

this study has investigated the effects of ict to increase efficiency and empowerment of rural women using data envelopment analysis (dea) to investigate the mechanism of effectiveness of information technology (ict) on the efficiency and empowerment of rural women in the village of gharn abad, golestan province. in this study, using survey methods, 38 users and 25 non-users of technology (cont...

BACKGROUND There is limited research on how the empowerment of women and intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with skilled birth attendance (SBA) among rural women in Uganda. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to investigate the association between women's empowerment, their experience of IPV and SBA in rural Uganda. METHODS Using data from the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey...

Duck production plays an important part in the agricultural economy of many Asia countries. The continent alone accounts for 82.6% of the total duck meat produced worldwide. Not only is Asia involved in duck production but also duck meat, eggs and their products are relished and consumed by many Asians. In spite of this, intensive education to empower rural households to increase duck productio...

The Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative enacted in 1993 sought to revitalized impoverished urban and rural communities through tax incentives and preferential treatment in grant programs across the federal government. In this paper, I utilize Census of Populations and County Business Patterns data to examine the impact of rural Enterprise Community designation from 1994-2000. This ...

As a vivid practice of urban-rural interaction, empowerment is playing an increasingly salient role in rural revitalization around the world. Yet, existing studies on practices are still insufficient. This paper examines how affect economic development communities China. study constructs integrated variable to measure Data for this were obtained from community data China Rural Household Panel S...