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Wandel des ländlichen Raumes in der Wissensgesellschaft

Kujath, Hans Joachim; Dehne, Peter; Stein, Axel - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 77 (2019) 5, pp. 475-491

In der Wissensgesellschaft differenziert sich die Raumstruktur in eine Vielzahl von Raumtypen aus; auch der ländliche Raum stellt sich nicht als ein homogenes Gebilde dar. Die "reflexive Moderne" der Wissensgesellschaft scheint keinen Determinismus in Bezug auf räumliche...

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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …

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The link between international remittances and private interhousehold transfers

Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012

from Ethiopia. Consistent with the prediction of the model, remittance has a strong positive effect on the amount of …

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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its "social capital" by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas...

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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective

Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003

Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …

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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review

Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5

Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...

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Interregionale Disparitäten und Entwicklung ländlicher Räume als regionalpolitische Herausforderung für die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten

Baum, Sabine; Weingarten, Peter - 2004

Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas (MOEL) die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Social capital, network effects and savings in rural Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van Den Broeck, Katleen - 2012

Information failures are a major barrier to formal financial saving in low income countries. Households in rural communities often lack the information necessary to set up formal deposit accounts or are uncertain about the returns to saving formally. In this paper, we explore the extent to which...

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Networks and innovation: the role of social assets in explaining firms' innovative capacity

Cantner, Uwe; Conti, Elisa; Meder, Andreas - 2009

The claim of a positive association between a firm’s social assets and its inno-vative capacity is a widely debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany, increasingly di-rected to cluster formation. In the light...

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