1. Path creation? Processes and networks : how the Chinese rural tax reform began -- 2. Differentiated actors : central-local politics in reform evolution -- 3. Embedded institutionalization : sustaining reform effects -- 4. State and market in public service provision : opportunities and traps...

The main purpose of this research was to establish measures to prevent demographic structural changes, which would positively influence the process of modernization-sustainable development of the rural household and the Romanian rural area. The starting point of the research was the creation of...

The Romanian rural household is the socio-economic unit for which the agricultural activity continues to be the main source of income or at least of supplementing incomes in the form of self-consumption; thus, most rural households overlap the agricultural household farms/peasant...