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Rural girls in Pakistan: Constraints of policy and culture

N all girls suffer the same educational disadvantages in Pakistan. Girls living in urban areas whose families come from the highest quartile of the income distribution are almost as likely as their male peers to have attended school or completed the five grades of primary schooling. By contrast, no more than a third as many girls as boys from the lowest income quartile of the income distributio...

Reinventing Rural Policy

Improved communications and the Internet make it possible for many people to work just as effectively from a cottage in a village as in a city office, for example, while cheaper transport and increased leisure time make it easier for farms to expand into non-farming activities. As a result, governments have moved away from a defensive attitude to rural policy, essentially focussed on trying to ...

Ecological analysis of health care utilisation for China's rural population: association with a rural county's socioeconomic characteristics

BACKGROUND The problem of accessibility and affordability of health care is reported to be a major social concern in modern China. It is pronounced in rural households which represent 60% of China's population. There are a few large scale studies which have been conducted into socioeconomic inequalities in health care utilisation for rural populations. Those studies that exist are mainly bivari...

Under-employment and rural migration in iran

Ecological approaches to rural development projects.

Most rural development projects include ecological considerations, and most conservation projects include some reference to sustainable development. However, conservation projects frequently fail because they do not incorporate local communities' perceptions and needs. Many development projects are also unsuccessful because they are not based on adequate ecological assessment. We focus here on ...