Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this … global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research … against gender-based violence. However, the urban is not inevitably disruptive. Experiences of the urban are shaped by …

, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …-19 may lead to reversals of these gains, with poverty rising to pre-2014-15 levels, rising more steeply in rural areas. …

has required real-time, researched data disaggregated for urban and rural populations and for various categories of the …, representing an unfair burden of distress resilience. Informal workers, women, and the urban poor have been disproportionately …

Cyclone Idai, the most devastating cyclone ever recorded in Southern Africa, caused havoc in large parts of central …

time. This paper seeks to examine the relationship not only between gender and urban income poverty but also, more … importantly, between gender and urban asset accumulation, illustrating how the combination of quantitative econometric measurement … a far more comprehensive analysis of asset accumulation processes in urban contexts than can be gained from any single …

viewed as a process to reach development for many African countries, this could lead to a negative effect on the rural … migration on agricultural productivity of rural households in Uganda. Since households select themselves into migration this …

This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for … 2011, we find that skilled workers have had an important impact on rural prosperity. A 1 percentage point rise in the share … literature on structural transformations and contend that such transformations can also happen within rural areas. …

Structural transformation in rural areas is a key issue in economic development. While much of the literature on … about the individual member level. The paper aims at examining factors that affect the individual-level employment rural … capital and social capital are important factors affecting employment transition status in the rural area. In addition …

phase 3. Southern Africa, specifically those in the Southern African Development Community, is used as a case study. We find …

females. Furthermore, we learned that individuals who thought it was unfair for Africa to reduce emissions polluted more. …