factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that … their own water and sanitation schemes, not just in rural areas but in urban ones as well. There are definite advantages to …

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with …

surveys in selected cities of Metro Manila (urban) and Rosario, Batangas (rural), respectively. Key findings of this paper are … as follows: (1) Proportion of employed among PWD respondents in the urban area is relatively higher than that in the … rural area; (2) Roughly half of working PWDs are underemployed; (3) Employed PWDs in the urban area are dominated by the …

I studied the determinants of migration from urban Ethiopia to other countries, to rural areas and to other urban areas …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

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 …

located in rural areas compared with those in urban agglomerations. Despite many recent attempts to measure digitization … determinants of website prevalence. Comparing urban with rural areas, we show that running a website - as a proxy for the degree of … digitization of the respective firm - is highly dependent on location, whereby firms in urban areas are almost twice as likely to …

, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …