or other birds die. Those who knew about H5N1 influenza told me that, without adequate compensation for culling flocks, little incentive would exist to report bird deaths. In a typical village, chickens, ducks, and pigs intermingled with each other and with humans underneath or around homes on stilts. General knowledge of infection control practices among villagers was minimal. The disseminatio...

The National Youth Service Action and Social Development Research Institute (NYSASDRI) has been implementing the Meikirch Model in 100 villages in the state of Odisha where rates of poverty, infant and maternal mortality are the highest in India. Although no formal evaluation yet exists, NYSASDRI staff have monitored 20 villages closely and associate great improvements in sanitation, malaria pr...

Savings-led microfinance programs operate in poor rural communities in developing countries to establish groups that save and then lend out the accumulated savings to each other. Nonprofit organizations train villagers to create and lead these groups. In a clustered randomized evaluation spanning three African countries (Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda), we find that the promotion of these community-...

while the putting a place of business out to lease is a subject matter which is common in trade and the goodwill, it is a familiar for the both lawyers and merchants. those matters are not so common and known in respect of e-stores. in this article the attempt is done to light up these subjects, present a legal analysis thereof and to show they are a separate matter of other similar subjects in...

Exploring in public policy making of villagers participation is the key point in the scientification and democratization of the policy. This paper takes the deliberative governance model in Zhejiang Province as example to study why and how villagers can participate in rural public policy making and how villagers' wills are taken into account in rural governance in China nowadays. And an effecti...

The objective of this paper is to underline the impact of business strategy on the level and type of information technology (IT) outsourcing used by an organization. Past research in IT outsourcing has mainly focused on the transaction itself, without investigating the strategic characteristics of the organization. When observing organizations, one cannot avoid noticing that those of similar si...