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 … 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 …

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 …

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 … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of … 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 … have greater access to health clinics and police, so are more able to control their fertility and secure external support …

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 … run websites compared with those located in rural areas. Our county-level analysis shows that a high population density, a …

, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …-19 may lead to reversals of these gains, with poverty rising to pre-2014-15 levels, rising more steeply in rural areas. …