Revitalizing Rural Areas in Malaysia: A Framework for Economic Revitalization

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

A Techno-Economic Framework for Broadband Deployment in Underserved Areas

A large body of economic research has shown the strong correlation between broadband connectivity and economic productivity (e.g., [1–3]). These findings motivate government agencies such as the FCC in the US to provide incentives to services providers to deploy broadband infrastructure in unserved or underserved areas. In this paper, we describe a framework for identifying target areas for net...

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 ...

The Role of Agriculture and Rural Development in Revitalizing Abandoned/Depopulated Areas

Education and Rural Revitalization: A Study of the Link Between Education and Economic Development