Rural economics Essays

  • The Paradox of Prison-Based Economic Development in Rural America

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    Prison-Based Economic Development in Rural America Introduction Whereas prison facilities were once viewed with aversion as threats to a community’s well-being, prisons today are the focus of competitive bids by rural communities desperate for economic stability. As non-metro economies deteriorated and prison populations exploded over the last two decades, rural America and prison facilities have developed a symbiotic relationship. This paper investigates whether prison-based economic development

  • Rural Infrastructure And Economic Development In Agriculture Development And Agricultural Development

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    Agriculture development is an essential for economic growth and rural development. Increase in agriculture productivity leads to the economic growth and create employment opportunity in rural area. While the state of rural infrastructure varies widely among developing countries, most lower-income developing countries suffer severe rural infrastructure deficiencies. Deficiencies in transportation, energy, telecommunication, and related infrastructure translate into poorly functioning domestic markets

  • Poverty In Algeria Essay

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    recent independence movement from France. In the rural areas, one can see a solution to this problem is to forge alliances with many rich countries so that constant trade can provide Algeria resources and money. Algeria had broken its chains from France in the year 1962 (Jones 11). Since its independence movement, there has been internal conflict, which also refers to how poverty deepened and the unemployment occurring in the rural areas of Algeria. (“Rural Poverty in…” 4). Throughout the years, Algeria

  • ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOUR

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    Registration No. F-509/Latur PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT, (PIRD) AN APPEAL EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAMME FOR ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOUR 1. Background of the Organisation : Inspired by the Nationwide call of Mahatma Gandhi ‘March towards Village,’ People’s Institute of Rural Development - PIRD was established in the year 1983. PIRD is working for landless labour, poor farmers, child labour & women groups related to rural development programmes. Campaign against child labour and

  • Socio-Economic Effects of Rural to Urban Migration

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    development and industrialization the need to build urban areas become certain. The lack of urban cities will cause people in the rural areas wants to move to the urban areas. Every person wants a standard of living better than where is he now. Therefore the drive to migrate to urban areas becomes obvious. Rural to urban migration leads to a loss of man power in the rural areas to work on the farm lands. It will lead to the declining of agriculture. It also leads to congestion in the urban areas therefore

  • Acute Housing Affordability Crisis in Rural England

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    1. Outline the scope and key drivers of the current housing affordability crisis in rural England, and assess the effectiveness of planning, now and in the future, in addressing this crisis; While much of recent discussions of housing affordability in England have been dominated by the rapidly increasing house prices in London, there is an arguably more acute housing affordability crisis in rural England. ‘Rural England’, characterized by Gallent as areas with fewer than 1000 inhabitants per 20

  • Persuasive Essay About Immigration

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    According to “How One Small Midwest Town Has Turned Immigration into Positive Change”, Small town in Rural Iowa is one of the example that was given by Richard Mertens, Mixing of language usage in class is interesting for people in town. Bilingual program is more popular than English-only classes that there is a waiting list for the bilingual program. This

  • Offshore Wind Power

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    Supplementary Assistance for Rural Communities in arenas of Energy And Water Constraints( 500-600) Urban area has been defined as a terrain with a population of 50,000 or a bunch of 2,500 to 50,000 people according to the US Census Bureau. Rural is later defined as anything external to that definition. Particular challenges are faced by rural areas when matter is of energy and water usage. For instance, utilities have to pay higher costs to modernize their energy groundwork and often find it stiffer

  • Exploring Factors Affecting the Quality of Life for Australia’s Rural Population

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    distances. Its peoples have a diversity of culture, educational and economic circumstances, health needs, services, and social structure. Therefore the welfare issues experienced and the impact these have to lifestyle within Australia’s different populations would also differ in relation to these factors. This is certainly true for Rural Australia. The biggest factor impacting Rural Australia has been the changes to the economic viability of primary production, one of the largest sources of income

  • Latino Community Essay

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    awareness of the role of power and privilege in their lives, helping them develop knowledge and skills for appropriately taking control over their life situations and helping them empower others in the community. In regards to the above definition, the rural population needs to have a better understanding of their circumstances and the wiliness to fight for positive change in their community, but not to dwell on the constant discrimination or oppression experience. Having a resilience attitude to address

  • Characters of Pedro Paramo Used to Critique Mexico

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    wealth in order to equilibrate the economic and social status in the nation. The ecomienda system allowed a few patrons to hold all of the wealth in a certain area and exert complete control over a city and the people that lived within it. The Revolution was intended to redistribute the land and power to the lower and middle classes, but this was not the case once the fighting ceased. The lower classes moved to urban areas in order to find work and pay while the rural towns that were under the control

  • The Challenges of Managing Rural Environmental Change

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    Challenges of Managing Rural Environmental Change Rural environments are modified by changes in economic activity. Most rural land use is a result of farming, particularly in LEDC, where the country is more primary based income. Land use in rural areas is being exploited in many areas such as: · Mining · Quarrying · Water supply · Forestry · Military activity · Tourism · Transport · New settlements Changes in farming have also affected rural environments, in a variety

  • Methland

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    of the production of methamphetamine’s in the rural town of Oelwein Iowa. Despite the odds of a poor, small, and rural town in Middle America, Oelwein climbed to the top of the economic ladder with a multi million dollar drug franchise spread throughout the 1990’s. The midwest suffered greatly in the 1980’s with the downfall of the agricultural business in the United States. Soon drug dealers started flocking to these seemingly desolate towns in rural America to safely distribute their product. With

  • Geography of Fear and Fear of Crime

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    Jones statement and discuss how media portrayal, environmental incivility in urban leading to loss of authority of space by local people and urban encroachment of rural areas shape the ‘geography of fear’. These factors at individual, neighbourhood and community level will be evaluated in ways so fear of crime can be reduced in urban and rural areas. ‘In its social and behavioural impact fear of crime may be as potent as victimisation itself’ (Cater and Jones, 1989: 104) relates to the geography of

  • Saemaul Undong Movement in South Korea and its Suitability in the Philippines

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    which will be further used as a key program in the country’s long-term economic development. Moreover, according to Korea Saemaulundong Center, the movement is a process done to eradicate poverty, to modernize rural areas, and even leads to mental revolution or change in attitude. However it is important to take note that, this isn’t the first time that Korea started a community development program, the first was Nongovernment rural community movements such as the Christian 4-H (Head Heart, Hand, Health)

  • Social Hierarchy in Medieval Europe's Rural Society

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    The rural society in the medieval Europe was based on well-defined hierarchy of the social classes. Though the people living in the rural areas were belonging to the lower class of the society, they were also divided into different sub-classes based on the tasks they performed in the society. These hierarchies were defined and stipulated by the churches and the emperors, and the rural society had to follow the orders or rulings. These hierarchies used to streamline the functioning of the rural societies

  • Class Classification in Arnold Wesker’s Roots

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    Arnold Wesker, an English playwright, a writer of international reputation, was born in Stephney (London) on 24 May,1932.He is the author of about Forty two plays mainly for the stage, four books of short stories, two collections of essays, a book for young people, three more of non-fiction and an autobiography. His works depict various themes, ideas, an obvious expression of deep sympathy, dreams, hopes and the humanism. Wesker is a dramatist with distinct social leanings. Roots is the second

  • Abandonment and Struggle on a Farm

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    described as using an “[H]onest, accessible verse…” (Ted Kooser: The Poetry Foundation). Kooser was born in Iowa and now resides in Nebraska. Both Iowa and Nebraska are situated in the Midwestern United States, an area noted for its rural landscape and population. Kooser’s rural background and ‘accessible verse’ are exceedingly evident in his poem “Abandoned Farmhouse”. The poem is as an observation of an abandoned farmhouse, it infers details about the house and the family that lived in it through inanimate

  • The Experiences of Rural Areas and Culture of Minority Groups

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    The experiences of different groups in rural settings are of significant importance to the study of rural geography itself. In particular, the experiences of both young people and travellers, often labelled as "others", are important in the way they provide a different perspective on rural spaces and cultures from the common `productivist' and `idyllic' cultural views. However, because they are minority groups and "different" from the "normal" majority, young people and travellers experience significant

  • The Good Earth: Family Structure in Rural China

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    Buck was rightly informed and presented her information correctly. One detail that she paid special attention to was the family structure within the rural Chinese family, which she presented in the form of the Wang Lung household. The family structure demonstrated by Buck is not restricted to the Wang Lung family, but was a part of every rural Chinese home in the early 1900s. Every member's experiences within the family structure are determined by the role and expectations placed on them by