One of the most important issues in rural development is empowerment and entitlement of farmers through participation. Decentralisation and participation are seemingly interdependent. Therefore, the paper begins with a theoretical discussion on the cause and effects of this interdependence....

How do cultural practices influence the process of participatory governance within local administrative structures? We address this question by reflecting cultural dimensions, such as collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance within a contextual sensitive "cultural sensemaking"...

Nous analysons, à l’aide d’un modèle de régression binomiale négative à inflation de zéros, en quoi avoir un capital social de réseaux peut aider les ménages ruraux à atténuer les contraintes de crédit. Dans le contexte de l’économie du développement, la méthode de recueil de...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of network-based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. Design/methodology/approach – In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine...