... used to analyze the data. Findings The study found that the presence of Catholic denomination is significantly associated with increased odds that water will be provided in rural areas (odds ratio = 2.88297, p = 0.008). The results also show that the presence of Protestant denomination...

... SACCOS. In addition, the study focused on the rural areas of Tanzania. The future studies can be carried out in urban areas or both urban and rural areas of Tanzania. Practical implications Local leaders, SACCOS’ leaders and other stakeholders in the study area should thus mobilise non-members...

... 04 2019 07 08 2019 15 08 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Development Agricultural economies Institutions and institutional analysis Rural areas Developing countries Ethiopia In many developing...

... 12 2017 01 06 2018 29 09 2018 29 09 2018 26 01 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ghana Rural areas Antenatal care Perception of quality Pregnant women Benedict Osei Asibey can be contacted...

...Subhendu Datta; Aviral Kumar Tiwari; C.S. Shylajan Purpose According to the 70th round of the National Sample Survey published by the Government of India in 2014, the incidence of indebtedness among households in the rural areas of Telangana state, India, is twice that of rural all-India. Around...

... development specifically. Social capital Microfinance Rural development Causal relationship Logistic regression Pakistan Household survey Principal component analysis Rural areas Rural economies Work of Robert Putnam on regional economic development in Italy is credited to bring...

... the Ghanaian perspective. Joshua Abor can be contacted at: joshabor@ug.edu.gh © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Financial services Ghana Rural areas Urban areas Households It has been established by several studies that financial sector development has a strong positive effect...

...@uct.ac.za © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Poverty Nigeria Social economics Urban areas Rural areas Multidimensional poverty Deprivation Capability approach Missing dimensions Nsukka The measurement, assessment and analysis of poverty are traditionally linked to a single...

...Rana Ejaz Ali Khan; Toseef Azid; Mohammad Usama Toseef Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate those variables which have significant impact on the food security in a developing country such as Pakistan. The matter of food security in rural areas is of immense nature and needs...

... market Mixed economies Industrial relations Urban areas Rural areas England For many commentators, the only feasible future is one in which the market continues to encroach into every aspect of daily life. For many, this is inevitable, inescapable and irreversible (Carruthers and Babb, 2000...

... failures. The other type, traditionally labelled as supply‐side theory, views non‐profit organization as an outlet for altruism, ideological entrepreneurship, and practicing of social values (Jegers, 2008 ; Steinberg, 2006 ; Buchenrieder et al., 2001). Non‐profit organizations Rural...

... in providing the easier access to credit, there are certain other factors such as rigid and strong social and cultural constraints that may also consider as major impediments to women's decision regarding borrowing especially in rural areas of Pakistan. Specific gender roles are rigidly demarcated according...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Rural areas Credit Co‐operative societies Loans Rwanda Arene (1992) used a regression analysis to identify the variables that have a significance bearing on credit repayment performance by farmers associations in Anambra state in Nigeria. Among...

...Stefan Mann; Daniel Erdin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that for rural regions of Switzerland, jobs and enterprises do not have a positive effect on the quality of regional development in rural areas. Design/methodology/approach Population development is used...

... to inter‐regional trade and other activities of local governments impact on the spatial organisation of the beef industry in the way they are so widely reported to do for other industries? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 China Rural areas Regional development Agriculture Animals...

.... Migrant workers Population Rural areas Urban policy Under the reform and open‐door policy introduced in 1979 China has relaxed the restriction on rural‐urban migration in order to find an outlet for its huge rural surplus labour. Many farmers have flocked to the cities and towns without official...

.... In 1990, China had 776,000 village doctors and 455,000 health aides (De Geyndt et al., 1992, p. 2). China Doctors Financial incentives Health care Rural areas Social economics The economic reforms in China have been ongoing since December 1978. The reform process encompasses...

... is necessary,important and possible. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Agriculture China Rural areas International Journal of Social Economics The Transformation of the Agricultural Population and the 16,1 Urbanisation Process in China 40 by Zhang Wenxian Suzhou University, People's Republic of China...