Der erste Teil des Buches ist der Soziologie des Landes gewidmet, die sich damit befasst, unter welchen Bedingungen und Umweltverhältnissen die Menschen auf dem Land leben, wie ihre Beziehungen untereinander und zu anderen Bevölkerungsteilen geregelt sind nach welchen Werten, Normen und...

Untersucht werden die Auswirkungen einer internationalen Kooperation heimischer Hersteller mit dem ausländischen Weltmarkt-beherrschenden Produzenten eines Fertigprodukts auf die Wohlfahrt von Niedrigeinkommenshaushalten in ländlichen Regionen Pakistans. Empirische Schätzungen dieser...

The paper described the challenge of provision of rural broadband provision by examining the economics of 4 fiber to the home networks in different parts of the US. It shows how streaming video entertainment is the largest and growing category of traffic and which puts unique demands on the...

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in developing countries, with an emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Assessments of these effects diverge greatly. While some authors see urbanisation as strongly benefitting rural areas, for...

Our use of longitudinal register data combined with a unique survey allows us to offer a more comprehensive picture of rural self-employment than in previous studies. We find that selfemployed in rural settings are more likely than those in metropolitan regions to employ others, but...

This paper examines the impact of access to markets on livestock-related income of herder households in Mongolia. The empirical findings show that reducing the distance to markets by ten kilometers increases household income by 1.0 percent on average.

In this paper, we study the causal impact of the intensity of mobile phone use on female labor force participation in India. Using data from a large representative household survey, we employ an instrumental variable approach to estimate this causal impact. We decompose the intensity of mobile...