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 …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … amplifying their effects. Our findings suggest that the decline in rural women's LFP could potentially be due to an income effect …

continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas …

their place of residence - rural or urban. With arguments based on the normative evolution of this classification and a …

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with … grow as fast as food price index. This can shift optimal rural population density to lower level, causing migration to … population density and rural density declines further due to low fertility and migration to cities. Those factors limited the …

other inner territories; -between urban and rural areas, culture and science; that reduced the "quality" of services …, shops, hotels, ets. are built in the capital. In regional centers - fewer shops, hotels, etc. are built. And rural area … given in towns. Services gradually "leave" rural areas ? many objects of social infrastructure are closed. The lack of …

of regional conditions and developments, which raises the question: what motivates people to start a business in a rural …, ageing region? And how do their motivations fit in the opportunity and necessity dimension? Rural Northumberland (UK) and … rural Drenthe (NL) are both facing a declining workforce and are strongly ageing. By means of semi structured, face …

Philippine Institute for Development Studies collaborated to undertake a similar study in a rural area. The survey was conducted … awareness and participation stem from not having the chance to go out and mingle with other people reflecting the social …, economic, and physical constraints that PWDs in rural areas are facing. …

surveys in selected cities of Metro Manila (urban) and Rosario, Batangas (rural), respectively. Key findings of this paper are … rural area; (2) Roughly half of working PWDs are underemployed; (3) Employed PWDs in the urban area are dominated by the … visually-impaired while the hearing-impaired has the highest proportion of employed in the rural area; (4) The leading …