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Productivity In Rural England

The purpose of this paper is to inform the development of rural policy by analysing the available evidence on productivity in rural areas. The Government's role in rural areas is to support enterprise; tackle rural social exclusion; provide fair access to services; and protect the natural environment for this and...

Tags: Exclusion, Productivity, Rural Area, Government, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

White papers 2005-11-01

Utility of a Thematic Network in Primary Health Care: A Controlled Interventional Study in a Rural Area

UniNet is an Internet-based thematic network for a virtual community of users VCU. It supports a virtual multidisciplinary community for physicians, focused on the improvement of clinical practice. This is a study of the effects of a thematic network such as UniNet on primary care medicine in a rural area,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, BioMed Central, rural area, physician, health care, network

White papers 2005-07-22

Putting Cars in the Mix: Development and Impacts of Car Clubs in Rural Areas

The Carplus Rural Transport Partnership was conceived to set up demonstration car club projects in a variety of rural areas. This report is one of the outputs from the Carplus national Rural Transport Partnership. This report reviews and assesses how the rural car club programme evolved and progressed, to summarize...

Tags: monitoring, strategy

White papers 2004-06-01

Analysis of the Effects of Large Lot Zoning

This study extends a test for the presence of binding zoning, originally developed to be applied across many adjacent jurisdictions, so that it can be applied within a single jurisdiction. This study also demonstrates how to carry out this test in the presence of spatially correlated OLS residuals by using...

Tags: rural area, analysis, sales

White papers 2004-02-18

Rural Passenger Transportation: Models and Strategies

People living in rural areas are supposed to be independent and self-sufficient, capable of providing their own transportation. Modern Americans move through an urban and suburban landscape, work in a global marketplace, and seldom acknowledge dependence on others. The paper presents a history of the replacement of horse power by...

Tags: National Academy of Sciences, transportation, rural area, strategy

White papers 2003-03-01

Additional Resources

Backyard fun?

I am curious to just how knowledgeable some of your authors are? I am referring to the June Out of the Box article on True Backyard Fun. I totally understand the fun of shooting an air rifle but, where is Mr. Galan's backyard? Every municipality I know of...

Articles 2008-08-01

Leak reveals ruthless strategy to bomb and murder until election

The ruling party in Zimbabwe has a detailed plan to murder opposition polling agents, bomb polling stations and march the electorate to the ballot box under armed guard to ensure an emphatic victory for Robert Mugabe in tomorrow's uncontested presidential run- off. Minutes of a meeting of...

Articles 2008-06-26

Portland Metro makes key land purchase

With a goal of protecting rural land south of Lake Oswego, Metro has purchased 25 acres of land in the Stafford Basin for $1.8 million. The triangle-shaped area, which is located in the Tualatin River basin, includes five lots that will now be protected from future development. ...

Articles 2008-06-26

C.A. Bancorp Inc. (TSX: BKP) Announces $5 Million Investment in Everus Communications Inc.

C.A. Bancorp Inc. ("C.A. Bancorp")(TSX: BKP) is pleased to announce a $5,000,000 investment in Everus Communications Inc. ("Everus"), a privately held company based in Kitchener, Ontario. As the largest wireless broadband provider in rural Ontario, Everus seeks to provide affordable, accessible and efficient broadband access for public and private sectors...

Articles 2008-06-25

Up to 500 feared dead as campaign of violence hits opposition in

The true death toll in the campaign of terror being led by Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe is close to 500, according to doctors' groups and opposition sources. The estimated number of killings had been thought to be 86 but new evidence collected from rural areas witnessing the worst of...

Articles 2008-06-25

Catholic Extension Bringing 'Mission America' Multi-Media Exhibit to New York's National Museum of Catholic Art and History

CHICAGO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Catholic Church Extension Society, a Papal Organization that supports missions in the United States, is bringing a multi-media exhibit called "Mission America" to New York's National Museum of Catholic Art and History from July 1 through August 13. The museum is located at...

Articles 2008-06-24

World must manage water carefully: experts

SINGAPORE AFP — The world's water resources must be carefully managed to meet the needs of billions of people flocking to urban centres, experts said Tuesday at a conference on sustainable development. Advances in water technology will play a key role in increasing supplies, but simple steps such...

Articles 2008-06-24

Lightning sparks hundreds of fires

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of wildfires sparked by lightning flared Sunday across the heart of wine country and remote forests in northern California, the latest batch of destructive blazes in the bone-dry state. One had spread across nearly 6 square miles by early Sunday after starting the...

Articles 2008-06-23

Thai PM faces critics in no-confidence debate

BANGKOK AFP — Thailand's prime minister faces his critics in a no-confidence debate beginning Tuesday, as he defends his four-month-old government from claims of mismanagement and cronyism. Samak Sundaravej took office after his People Power Party PPP comfortably won elections in December, ending more than a year of...

Articles 2008-06-23

GE Water Solutions Selected for Pakistan's National Clean Water Initiative

GE Advanced Membrane Technologies to Provide Safe, Clean Drinking Water at over a Thousand Sites ISLAMABAD, Pakistan & TREVOSE, Pa. -- A visionary government program to provide clean drinking water throughout Pakistan will use GE ultrafiltration systems at over a thousand distribution sites. This initiative is expected to...

Articles 2008-06-23

Online initiative will give people in rural areas help they need

A NEW initiative is being set up to enable people living in rural areas to log on to the internet and contact a counsellor online for help with alcohol problems. The pilot scheme, due to be launched later this month in Perth and Kinross, will allow anyone...

Articles 2008-06-22

THE SURVIVORS PAKISTAN'S NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE WAS TORN APART

LIFE in the villages of the Siran Valley is hard but remote from the hectic pace of the modern world. It is also precious. Two years ago these villages in the lush green of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province were plunged into chaos and grief as a massive...

Articles 2008-06-22

Health-care fault line in rural counties

MANSFIELD, Pa. - Rural Tioga County sprawls across more than 1,100 square miles along the New York border in the north-central section of Pennsylvania. Like many other depressed areas, it suffers from high unemployment, low income and high rates of chronic disease. But it has far fewer employers than do...

Articles 2008-06-22

Let's finish it! Tsvangirai in call to bring down Mugabe

Zimbabwe's main opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change MDC, will decide tomorrow whether to boycott what is seen as the country's most important election since independence. The run- off next week between the MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe has been thrown into disarray by a state-sponsored campaign of...

Articles 2008-06-21

Indian girl-boy ratios at 'all-time low': British charity

LONDON AFP — The number of girls to boys in India has hit a record low, British charity ActionAid said Saturday as it urged the government in New Delhi to take "sustained action" to prevent a lost generation of women. "In a country with a long history of...

Articles 2008-06-21