One of the most important and most overlooked development assets is the capacity of poor people to mobilize and organize for collective action. 111 Membership-based organizations and networks of poor people have emerged in many places in response to the common needs of specific groups: rural producers, home-based workers, slum dwellers, indigenous people, and landless workers, among others. Poo...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of health care providers, principally physicians and hospitals, who develop a new entity that contracts to provide coordinated care to assigned patients with the goal of improving quality of care while controlling costs. Section 3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 created the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP). The C...

the volume and speed of change in today’s world has made the necessity of change in management systems inevitable. this obligation in governmental section of country has been understood and been put in the agenda of planners from some years ago, which its result is displayed in the plans of administrative change. this paper is the result a filed research in 45 governmental organizations in kerm...

Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can have dramatic impact on poverty alleviation for rural women and for achieving socio economic development goals. Rural women need to treat ICTs as an empowerment tool and a means to a living. The use of mobile communication devices and internet are changing the way agricultural activities are managed by farmers nowadays. Rural women...

solid waste management system is a collection of activities used for regulate society waste in the manner of engineering and sanitary. in order to have waste management system in rural areas there should be appropriate building capacity. the status quo of functional elements in rural solid waste management system in iran includes collecting and disposing in the ground. the mean of per capita pr...

The development status of rural informatization in Beijing was analyzed from three aspects, which include infrastructure building, resource platform and service system construction, and the information technology application in rural areas. The infrastructure building in Beijing had certain scale, and the network coverage in rural counties and the rate of network into villages almost reached 10...

introduction since 1938, a couple of decades before iranian's revelation, attention to villages and rural development as a part of developmental process in national scale and also in order to analyze social, political, and economical changes has been discussed as a vital part and acted a major part in development policies. however, this attention and dedication to the program are results o...

THE PURPOSE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Knowledge is widely recognized as a primary commodity in the current knowledge-based economy. Today, the main asset of production is intellectual capital as opposed to the tangible assets that previously drove manufacturing-based markets (Kemp et al., 2001). In analogy, knowledge is as critical to the information age as oil was to the industrial age. Organizatio...

Based on two panels of longitudinal data drawn from consecutive time periods, this paper examines whether there is any link between an establishment’s business strategy, its human resources strategy, or its compensation strategy and its subsequent adoption of employee profit sharing. Results indicate that establishments pursuing a low-cost business strategy or a high-wage compensation strategy ...

The adaptation of personnel in a medical organization is an integral part the overall system high-quality and safe activities, both specific at level subject federation. current training, existing prejudices graduates universities regarding work rural areas, problems securing specialists organizations, especially make issue need for effective young significant. A systematic approach project man...