The present thesis is an investigation of sustainable rural community development in the face of the global economy. It aims to develop a framework for capacity building, leading to the empowerment of rural communities in developing countries in response to restructuring and adj…
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This thesis examines female power and autonomy in the Roodsar region of the Iranian province of Gillan. It begins with a critical examination of the "Indian debate", which discusses the phenomenon of women's subordination and their relative welfare in relation to "material" cond…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lives of Muslims living in an Islamic village through their own perspectives, experiences, and lives in accordance with Islamic beliefs and customs. This study was important because the Muslim population is growing rapidly…
The ultimate objective of this thesis is to provide an alternative way of estimating the poverty line in Indonesia. There are at least two objections of the official method. First, it is not consistent from the perspective of welfare economics. Second, it does not take account e…
Estimates of total fecundability and total fetal loss are confounded by an inability to detect pregnancies very early in gestation. A cycle in which no pregnancy is observed results from either no conception or a conception followed by an unrecognized fetal loss. This research e…
The widely accepted portrait of antebellum female moral reform, as a middle-class campaign against the sexual double standard and the rise of commercialized sex, is based on research into the movement in urban settings and does not explain its appeal to the vast majority of acti…
This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary and mixed method approach to measuring and identifying the demographic significance of women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh. I argue that demographic research on women's empowerment provides a unique opportunity to integrate femini…
This dissertation analyzes why political power in Diamou, a small town in Western Mali, is unable to support local development. A historical description of successive configurations of political power, based on oral history research in the area, shows that local power is always …
This study examines the extent to which electrification relates to improvement of quality of life in Indonesia. In this respect, the study addresses two objectives. First, it examines the extent to which electrification accounts for differences in quality of life in Indonesia. S…
Introduction of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technology in Bangladesh creates an interesting case to show the complicated interplay between cultural norms, women's role, and structural transformation of agriculture. By taking Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research…
In this dissertation I evaluate the family support for the elderly in the aging developing countries. I argue that well-being of the elderly cannot be ensured by the family alone for two reasons: the burden will increase in the future and elderly are not necessarily taken of wel…
This dissertation explores the implications of political and economic reform for local scale governance, defined primarily in terms of conflict management. A decade of neoliberal reform in Africa has revealed a fundamental dilemma; regime threatening conflict is associated with,…
This mixed-method study seeks to discover a framework for rural lay-leadership development at Harvest Chapel Assembly of God, a rural Illinois Assemblies of God church that spans rural and urban communities. Though a thriving church, Pastor Bell, during a church council meeting,…
In this study, I argue that nonformal education (NFE) programs for the development of rural women in Bangladesh should heed the women's own voices and consider the women's own experiences, objectives, and needs (both practical and strategic) in order to be more effective and suc…
Since the early twentieth century, Mexican migrants and immigrants have been an integral segment of the agricultural laborer force. As part of the traditional agrarian class model, Mexican farm laborers were physically, socially, and politically apart from rural communities. Mor…
The Ethio-Eritrean conflict which lasted for three decades, 1961–1991, is a prototype of modern warfare that ravages the livelihood of rural communities. In these communities, the household is an economic and social unit. The ecological environment is their capital—source for fo…
The objective of this study was to examine some factors which might influence the effectiveness a training program designed to support the income generation activities of the members of the UPPKA project in Indonesia. The study was conducted in three different villages, namely B…
This is a theoretical and empirical study of the changing structure and operation of the market for rural finance in San Clemente county, an agricultural region in southern Chile. Several variants on a model of financial intermediation provide a framework for explaining the obse…
Efforts by international nongovernmental organizations and the Federal Republic of Nigeria to reduce the impact of HIV virus infection in Nigeria have been less successful than anticipated. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between attitudes, religious b…