GOVERNANCE REFORM - NECESSITY FOR THE RURAL AREAS OF RUSSIAN-BELARUSIAN BORDER AREA

The role of border markets in socio-economic development of rural areas Case: Khaw and Mirabad rural areas, Marivan County

Introduction Today economists introduce the trade as an engine for development incentive. So, the establishment of border markets is a good strategy to eliminate the created gap of central and border areas. Consequently, what has recently attracted the attention of many development planners is to get rid of current economic and social crises of frontiersmen. These markets compensate for the ...

Health care reform in rural areas.

Border Tourism on the Russian - Chinese Border

The paper focuses on the tourism development strategy of the Amur Oblast called “Twin Cities”. Said initiative became the first attempt of the Russian Far Eastern regions to create the hospitality industry towards Chinese tourists in the Sino-Russian borderlands. Bringing together such sub-disciplines as border tourism, urban planning and territorial development helps to find out the peculiarit...

The Role of Urban-Rural Links in the Formation of the Local Network in the Border Areas (Gomishan; Golestan Province)

  Background and Amis: Urban-rural links play an important role in the local economy and the livelihoods of the inhabitants of rural settlements so it is imperative to study more closely these links, their performances, their spatial-regional planning, and the "local network" approach in the scale of the district and the rural system. Like an efficient approach, the local network can cause func...

Medical schools in rural areas--necessity or aberration?

INTRODUCTION There is major maldistribution of physicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While 70% of Congolese live in rural areas, relatively few doctors practice there. Of the 25 medical schools in the DRC (14 public and 11 private) only one private medical school is located in a rural area. The purpose of this article was to analyse and compare the graduates of an urban- and...