Existing research has found that in rural areas of Nepal, education level is an important factor in improving residents’ active participation in water resource utilization (Whittington et al. 2002). In Thailand, the higher the education level of residents, the more evident is their water-saving ...
With the development of urbanization in China, the urban–rural gap is gradually narrowing. The growth of population in urban areas and the shortage of housing supply stimulates the huge potential demand in the real estate market, and then housing prices rise sharply. On the other hand, the ...
The market in Europe held the largest market share in the base year. This region's growth is due to a combination of factors, such as demand for drones in agriculture, strong research and development capabilities, increase in funding, and others. Additionally, there is an increase in a numbe...
as well as social and financial challenges. These organizations rely on funding for operations through individual giving (donations and legacies), earned charitable activities and public fundraising
In China, the marketplace lending market has experienced explosive growth due to the large unbanked population, the rapid adoption of mobile payments, and the lack of traditional lending infrastructure in rural areas. The Chinese government has also been supportive of marketplace lending, as it ...
Sustainable Development Goal 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food and nutrition security and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. This requires that small-scale producers be included in, and benefit from, the rapid growth and transformation under way in food systems. Small-scale producers interact...
This assertion is supported by the statis- tics pertaining to locality where about 97% of the farmers reside in rural areas. The same trend is recorded for scale of farming where nonfarm non-participants cultivate 2.046 ha relative to 1.609 ha cultivated by participants in nonfarm ...
Segmentation implies that groups of workers face different sets of potential job opportunities that are unevenly distributed within metropolitan areas. Thus, the spatial mismatch may vary by gender, race, or class. Researchers have only begun to tease out the interactions between segmentation and ...
(2008) confirmed the strong and pervasive influences of legal origins on various areas of law and regulation and suggested they can have wide-ranging economic and financial consequences. These authors provided evidence that economic outcomes can range from financial development to investments and growth...
In terms of user distribution, the penetration rate in first-tier and new first-tier cities has reached 50.3% and 20.3%, respectively, while the penetration rate in cities below the second-tier is less than 10%.Lower-tier cities, especially rural areas in central China, still face a huge ...