Mahatma Gandhi and his economic ideas are relevant to economic process and in twenty first century. His vision to create Indian villages prosperous and progressive is feasible through economic process. His plan of Gram Swaraj aims at developing villages in a very manner, which retains and...

The study assessed the impact of geographicalfactors on the development of rural communities in Benue state.Primary data (on living standard, employment, social inclusion,climate, location, resources, and environmental stability) weregenerated through mixed questionnaires administered to...

Regional competitiveness, understood as the ability of regions to promote, attract and sustain the economic activity, so that their population can reach and maintain a high living standard, is the object of the present analytical approach. The results of the study reveled that the economy of the...

In recent decades, tourism has evolved into one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic industrial sectors, encompassing various complementary businesses across diverse fields. The pivotal role of local knowledge in shaping tourism services and products in rural areas cannot be...

The main objective of this work is to review the recent achievements on the mechanisms explaining local and rural development, which underpin the current definition of rural areas in the European literature. The analysis carried out in this article acknowledges a gap between local development...

The paper is focused on rural development in the Czech Republic. The contemporary situation is influenced by global megatrends as well as by inner factors. Lifestyle of the Czech rural population has been reshaped, recently. Because the factors are changing every decade, it brings a lot of...

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 from Zambia. It argues that people living in...

Serbian: Раст примене интернета и ИКТ и развој дигиталне економије крајем прошлог и почетком новог века истакли су с новом снагом проблеме конкуренције и повезана...