Some rural regions in Western Germany have experienced a very positive economic development in terms of employment and incomes in the past decade. This development, however, is in sharp contrast to the the enduring economic lag of many rural regions in Eastern Germany. This paper seeks to find...

The urban-rural divide in China was an entrenched feature of Chinese society in the Maoist era. This divide generated and continues to generate inequality as between the rural population and the urban population. In post-Deng China, legal and administrative distinctions between urban and rural...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Bedeutung exogener Unternehmensgründungen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Ländlicher Räume untersucht. Dabei wird zunächst die räumliche Verteilung exogener Gründungsaktivitäten und ihr Beitrag zum regionalen Gründungsgeschehen im Bundesgebiet ermittelt....