A large-scale movement is underway in higher education to incorporate academic service-learning experiences into the curriculum. Decades of research across a range of disciplines and institutional contexts has shown this pedagogy’s positive effects on student outcomes such as personal and...

Az 1989. decemberi rendszerváltás Romániában is, mint más posztkommunista országban az oktatási rendszer reformjával kecsegtetett az értelmiségi elit szemszögéből. Utólag derült ki, hogy a modernizálódás útjára lépett országban a rendszerváltásban résztvevő politikai...

Egyre gyorsuló ütemben fejlődő korunkban mindinkább előtérbe kerül az információ, mint a gazdasági szervezetek erőforrása. Az információ előállítás, továbbítás és felhasználás egyre fontosabb szerepet kap, melyhez az informatika és az információs rendszerek...

The slides that follow provide an introduction to rural economic development and public policy. I have scanned the original slides and inserted them into modern PDF and PowerPoint presentations. Some of the hand-made charts have older data, but could be easily updated. These color slides were...

The effective delivery of computerized decision aids for policymakers who must deal with problems of economic development has been of increasing interest to both extension and research workers in rural development. This paper describes efforts recently completed at the University of Kentucky...

Chain coordination is growing in importance for those in the food industry to maintain access to global markets and competitive advantage. Information communication facilitates coordination and is seen as the glue that holds organisational chain relationships together. This paper describes how...

In-migration is generally accepted as a decisive factor of rural social and economic development and potential rural regeneration. Intellectual quality and practical experiences of new arrivals with their theoretical and practical knowledge, and also with their network of interpersonal contacts,...