The focus of this paper is the emerging potential for radical e-enabled changes involving two key rural development drivers, namely: 1) enhanced collaboration – addressing problems such as small enterprise sizes, low rural demand and supply chain volumes, as well as problems associated with limited local human capacities and uncoordinated or misdirected rural development planning; and 2) enhanc...

This paper lays out the advantages of using a model for developing research questions and methodologies aimed at evaluating how managed care arrangements for rural Medicaid moms and their children might affect their access to health care and their related health status. The PRECEDE (predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling causes in educational diagnosis and evaluation) health-education program ...

"In this paper we question the pioneering work of Todaro, which states that rural-to-urban labor migration in less developed countries (LDCs) is an individual response to a higher urban expected income. We demonstrate that rural-to-urban labor migration is perfectly rational even if urban expected income is lower than rural income. We achieve this under a set of fairly stringent conditions: ...