between remote, rural and urban areas in Australia and other comparable countries. It finds that users experience some … disadvantages compared with urban users, but generally no more so than in other countries. This is despite the higher cost of … providing services in more sparsely populated Australia. The prices of traditional telephone voice services are similar in rural …

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of …

Gujarat was the first state in India which introduced the smart card license system in 1999. It was the first place in … system, which has become the success story for dif ferent states of India and overseas countries such as USA. …

Urban is still an interesting topic to discuss whether in government or public studies. As economy grows in cities …, many people are attracted to come to cities from villages to try their luck. In this paper, we investigated urban area … that will change their states in agriculture, industry, and service series, here we show how the urban areas dominated by …

each type. Using national community and household data collected as part of a research project on rural Canada (The New … Rural Economy Project of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation), we outline the framework, propose measures of the … investigating rural communities and rural programs. …

offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …

differential level of development performance across states in India during the last two decades. …