Given the importance of women's participation and taking advantage of their ability, it is essential that a systematic and strategic plan should be organized in this area. Undoubtedly, planning for the development of the specific associations of rural women can be an effective step to increase their participation in various scenes, and it can also help improve the status and rights of women. Th...

positive. The features that characterize rural women’s work — labour intensity, local materials and local markets — also constrain product diversification and market expansion. Other constraints include lack of field-tested appropriate technology, interference by men in the use of capital reserves, lack of infrastructure and transportation, lack of managerial skills, direct and indirect competi...

IFAD: Rural Enterprise Policy iv RATIONALE: MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES AND POVERTY REDUCTION Role of the Off-Farm Sector in Reducing Poverty 2 Small-Scale Rural Enterprise and the Rural Economy 3 IFAD and Rural Enterprise 4 Role of the Off-Farm Sector vis-à-vis IFAD's Strategic Framework and Regional Strategies 5 DEVELOPING MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES FOR THE POOR IN RURAL AREAS: DEFINITION, L...

while promoting rural economic enterprises and businesses can contribute to create and strengthen entrepreneurship, this as a crucial strategy will accelerate rural development process. through extending these businesses and strengthening entrepreneurship among rural people proper solutions can be found to combine resources both inside and outside the village. it can also assist to provide both...

We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). Rural households operate enterprises due to both push and pull factors and tend to do so predominantly in eas...

this study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. the samples were chosen from rural development experts of hamedan province during a snowball sampling process. the data were collected by the semistructured interviews. the data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. the theoretical saturation was attained ...

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

the presence of women in social and managerial fields is one the indicator of social justice and development that leads to optimum use of capabilities and potentials of half of the country's rural population. in the recent years, establishing public institution of dehyary by the ministry of interior have provided new opportunity for women presence in rural management. this study aimed to identi...

Against this backdrop and through several exemplary cases around the world, this paper intends to highlight that women entrepreneurs have made some gains and its emerging role in the rural African setup given the imminent global economic crisis. The market for e-business and e-commerce is, at least potentially, has strengthened their ability to more effectively compete even in the domestic mark...