this study has investigated the effects of ict to increase efficiency and empowerment of rural women using data envelopment analysis (dea) to investigate the mechanism of effectiveness of information technology (ict) on the efficiency and empowerment of rural women in the village of gharn abad, golestan province. in this study, using survey methods, 38 users and 25 non-users of technology (cont...

This study examines the state of sense of community, neighboring behavior, and social capital in the People's Republic of China, and explores their ability to predict local political participation, in the form of voting in elections for Urban Resident/Rural Villager Committees. Using a nationally representative survey, rural, older and married residents and those with a primary or high school e...

This paper analyses the trends and pattern of women’s employment in rural India using unit data from two types of large scale surveys. It shows that while rural women’s employment has grown over the decades, there has not been much improvement in outcomes. Women are still largely concentrated in agriculture as self-employed or casual labour. Women workers face various forms of discrimination, i...

home business is one of the best fields of women's economic activity and considered as an important strategy for job creation, particularly for rural women. nonetheless many barriers avoid addressing rural women to these businesses. the main purpose of this study was to analyze the most important barriers for trends of rural women and girls to home businesses. the statistical population of...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of producer cooperatives (pcs) on rural development in fars, khorasan, semnan, golestan and hamadan provinces of iran in 2007. more specifically, this paper focuses on the economic aspects and social changes occurred in rural area concerning the cooperatives development. in order to measure quantitatively the effectiveness of economic and social ...