Community Empowerment Through the Village Innovation Incubation Program - Local Economic Development in Pejambon Village, Bojonegoro Regency

Village Voice: Expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies

The Village Voice project is a study of the efficacy of a localized ontology in the dissemination of narrative. It seeks to understand how community members can articulate their lives in ways that allow each other to reflect on the makeup of their overall community, and how they represent their community's needs to those outside of the group. I utilize a knowledge model, or ontology, created by...

Infectious hepatitis in a village community.

Male and female patients progressed equally well. Those under 30 years of age and those whose asthma had lasted 20 years or less fared the best. The severity of asthma and the type of trigger also provided differences in response to hypnosis; mild cases and those with emotional triggers did best, but good responses were observed in the other categories. Patients who were easily hypnotized, thos...

Village Economic Accounts: Real and Financial Intertwined

Using the household panel data from Townsend Thai data, we create the economic and balance of payments accounts for a set of villages in rural and semiurban areas of Thailand. We then study these village economies as small open countries, as in international economics, exploring in particular the relationship between the real (production and trade) and financial (credit and financial flows) var...

Investigating the Role of Participatory Institutions on the Local Development (Case of Study: Islamic Council in the Dehong Village)

In This study we tried to examine the role of participatory institutions in the local development by measuring the effect of social capital on the promotion of performance. Our research sample was Dehong's (a village in south of Iran) Islamic Council. On the other hand it tries to evaluate effect of social capital on local development. The result of the study showed that some of social capital ...

Grameen Foundation USA Village Phone – A Tool for Empowerment