The Gandhian idea of governance and development at the community level is a people-centered approach that combines a number of activities to ensure people (rural people) access to relevant information so that they shall collaborate and participate in development. Through information and...

Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...

In Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero, rural social and civic movements are increasingly claiming their right to information as a tool to hold the state publicly accountable, as part of their ongoing issue-specific social, economic, and civic struggles. This study reviews the historical,...

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The study aims to assess the lived experience and the quality of life (QoL) perceived level by residents of an high complexity rural area. The paper introduces the concept of rural capital as an effective tool for rural well-being and local rural development analysis and measurement, as well as...

The study probed the relationship between the extent to which corporative societies purchase and sell goods at lower prices and rural development. Data were collected from 150 participants. The data were analysed using the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient at 0.05 level of...

The aim of this paper is to describe the primary changes and development that outlined the history of Colonial Punjab and to narrate grassroots and provincial perspectives on the changes. I examine with a blend of grassroots and provincial perspectives by contextualizing actual historical events...