This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers entire rural area of the...

This book will be a valuable source of information for those concerned with rural and farm tourism, sustainable tourism and the marketing of local gastronomy. It presents cases with an international and interdisciplinary approach in order to provide ideas for strategic perspectives in tourism...

This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility...

Ziehen alle in die Stadt? Wohin zieht das Dorf? -- Dorf-Marketing: Smart Village versus Smart City -- Existenzberechtigung: Aufgeben, erhalten oder gestalten -- Gestaltungsprozess: Partizipativ, kooperativ, innovativ -- Gestaltungsfelder: Ziele, Strategien, Maßnahmen -- Perspektive Hoffnung...

General introduction -- General introduction -- Public engagement for infrastructure provision: Case studies on successful FTTH roll-out strategies -- Relevance of broadband -- The qualification of broadband access technologies -- The mechanisms of infrastructure enforcement -- The effectiveness...

Grundlagen des Tourismus im ländlichen Raum -- Organisations- und Vermarktungsstrukturen -- Infrastruktur für den Tourismus im ländlichen Raum -- Angebots- und Produktentwicklung für den Tourismus im ländlichen Raum -- Kommunikation und Vertrieb für den Tourismus im ländlichen Raum --...

This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world...

This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India...

Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Review of Economic Policies and Growth Performance -- Chapter 3: Regional Economic Growth and Inequality -- Chapter 4: Growth and Regional Divergence in Industry and Services -- Chapter 5: Growth and Regional Divergence in Agriculture -- Chapter 6: Structural...

Chapter 1. Regional Development in India -- Chapter 2. Development Disparities: An Exploration of Past Research -- Chapter 3. Regional Disparity in India: A Research Agenda -- Chapter 4. Regional Inequality and Convergence in Economic Growth in India -- Chapter 5. Regional Disparity and...