This paper is the second paper in a series of papers on Community Economic Development Strategic Framework for Poverty Alleviation in Local Government with particular attention to the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality (RMLM). The objective of this paper is twofold: (i) to examine the rationale...

Information and communication technology (ICT) in South African telecentres is used by communities for social and economic development. Community informatics (CI) is a technology discipline which links economic and social development efforts at the community level with emerging opportunities in...

The discussions in this introductory section will, to a great extent, re-echo our submissions in related publications (Ebewo 2007, 2005, 2004). Since the late 1980s, theater for development practice (TfD) has gained grounds in Africa, the Caribbean Islands, Latin America and Asia. Though its...

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and...

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...