The article presents critical analysis of the state of the art in contemporary studies in social organization as factor affecting rural economic growth. We outline two major theoretical and methodological challenges that researchers have to face in order to progress further in understanding of the driving forces and obstacles to sustainable rural economic growth in developing societies. First, ...

Living like America means producing and consuming at or near the level of the present top consumer. For material well-being as well as equity, many wish and work for a world in which high economic activity pervades. Others fear environmental harm from the product of global population times the affluence of America. I ask: Has the world ever had uniform income at the level of the top consumer? D...

architecture education has social, interpersonal and ethical aspects. the role of narration and storytelling as a pedagogical tool in clarification of academic subjects has been argued by researchers.architecture is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on the arts, science and social sciences. the aim in educating architects is seen as developing the imaginative, conceptual and practic...

Market transition theory has developed ever more nuanced methodologies for the analysis of institutional change in an economy at mesoand microlevels of analysis. Relying on several of these contemporary analytical methods, this paper will discuss obstacles to, and suggest preliminarily some theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of, the extent of causal influence of levels of sectora...

Diabetic foot complications result in huge costs for both society and the individual patients. Few reports on the health-economic consequences of diabetic foot infections have been published. In studies considering a wide societal perspective, costs of antibiotics were relatively low, whereas total costs for topical treatment were high relative to the total costs of foot infections. Total direc...

The pressing need to combine protecting the environment with sustaining development has become increasingly recognized. This theme deals with environmental and ecological sustainable development. Environment damage has not only created obstacles to sustainable economic development, but is also posing great threats to human health and life, to ecological systems and the natural world, and to the...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to long term participation by country A into country B. There are two types of FDI: inward FDI and outward FDI. Many African countries have already done much to create a more business-friendly environment and many have made impressive progress towards political and economic stability. In their efforts to revive economic activity they have scaled down burea...