Responsibility in Rural Development Sector: Evidences from India 139 Corporate Social Responsibility in Rural Development Sector: Evidences From India A. Manager (Sociology) RITES LTD. (A Government of India Enterprise) RITES Bhawan 1‚ Sector-29‚ Gurgaon-122 001 email: dr_sanjaypradhan@yahoo.co.in‚ akhileshranjan@rediffmail.com Sanjay Pradhan‚ Akhilesh Ranjan Abstract The paper attempts to explore Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices particularly in the context of rural development
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Increasing urban sprawl and motorization have become leading causes of environmental and social problems in recent years throughout the world‚ particularly in cities of developing countries. Urban sprawl is the disorderly expansion of urban areas‚ especially resulting from real estate development on the out skirts of a city. Motorization‚ which is linked to urban sprawl‚ can be defined as the increasing use of motor vehicles. Although motor vehicles offer some benefits such as convenience‚ their
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financial empowerment of the rural areas is vital‚ being the repository of the predominantly poor in society and in particular the SMEs. If this growth strategy is adopted and the latent entrepreneurial capabilities of this large segment of the people is sufficiently stimulated and sustained‚ then positive multipliers will be felt throughout the economy. To give effect to these aspirations various policies have been instituted over time by the Federal Government to improve rural enterprise production capabilities
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production of the built environment (i.e.‚ speculators‚ real-estate agents‚ financial institutions‚ government‚ etc.) and‚ with reference to Hong Kong‚ to illustrate their role in urban change. Introduction The correlation between productions of built environment‚ human activities and the change of urban development has long been a hot topic in Hong Kong. It requires a complex decision making process‚ which includes political‚ economic and social concerns‚ in the urban planning. In this essay‚
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Urban ecosystem and Ecopolis Lai Wei March 29‚ 2012 Introduction When people talk about the city‚ the first thing they thought is the building and the traffic. It’s hard to connect city to the ecological and the environment. But as the humanity is rapidly urbanizing‚ by 2010‚ more than 50% of the world population is expected to live in the city. (The World Bank‚ 2010) Cities can be tremendously efficient. It can easier to provide water and sanitation for a large number of people living
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BRANDING DECISIONS IN RURAL MARKETING (Sonal Purohit‚ Kahkashan Qayyum) “The rural consumer is discerning and the rural market is vibrant. At the current rate of growth‚ it will soon out strip the urban market. The rural market is not sleeping any longer. We are.” So sad Mr. Adi Gogrej of Godrej industries. This makes it clear that the importance of rural market at present competition is to capture market share and consumer loyalty. India is shining then! India is Unique in many ways. A population
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these are just raw data‚ finish them. Characteristics of rural areas used Rural areas are large and isolated areas of an open country with low population density ECONOMIC GROWTH used Economic growth can simply be defined as A positive change in the level of production of goods and services by a country over a certain period of time Economic growth is the increase of per capita gross domestic product (GDP) or other measure of aggregate income‚ typically reported as the annual rate of change
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Rural Entrepreneurship for Women: A Case for Wealth Creation by Africa’s Rural Poor amidst Global Financial and Economic Crises K M Baharul Islam1 Introduction: The growing emphasis on rural small and medium size entrepreneurship for economic development‚ especially in the context of poverty alleviation in developing countries has thrown up some major challenges for the commercial ventures led by women in global perspective. The position of women‚ even in the developing world‚ has been far from
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REPORT TOPIC: Rural Development and Three Rural Problem in China; To what extent China Resources Hope Town Project Helps to Solve Three Rural Problems in Guang Xi? Currently‚ around 900 million of China’s population‚ which account for around 70% of China’s total population and 22% of world population lives on around 2 billion mu (1 mu = 1/15 of a hectare) cultivable land accounting for 7% of world total cultivable land‚ and on average a peasant household survives on 1.5 mu of land (Zhang et. Al
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INTRODUCTION 1.0 An Overview of Urban Regeneration According to Withgott and Brennan (2007)‚ people are now live at a turning point. Beginning about the year 2007‚ for the first time in the human history‚ more people will live in the urban areas than in rural areas. The development of social diversity is one of the principal objectives of urban regeneration. It aims at attracting new inhabitants in degraded districts but also preventing their inhabitants to leave them as soon as the situation
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