children” The early 1800s in the United States witnessed societal changes of the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of capitalism that influenced the development of the common school. These societal changes led in a change from individual choice and local control to a more centralized education in which the government controlled. The societal changes of republicanism in America happen after the United States Revolution. The founding
experience the local customs, lifestyle and culture (Wang,1997). Remarkably, local cultural identity can be communicated to visitors through the tour (Wang,1997). Despite the fact that the rights and privacy of the residents may be invaded and tourism will probably increase ‘social interactions’, tourism can not only protect hutongs and courtyards, but also bring economic benefits for the city and create jobs to ease employment pressure (Ryan et al.,2013). In addition, hutong tourism combines urban modernization
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Urban Greening broadly refers to the integrated approach of planting, preserving and management of all forms of vegetation in cities and peri-urban areas of social, economic and environmental benefits (Byrne et al., 2010). Urban greening can be synonymously used with the term urban greenspace which refers to a broad variety of green areas within cities, (Roy et al., 2012). These include all types of parks, sporting fields, private backyards and gardens, street trees
usually concentrated in urban areas. According to ILO (2002) despite the importance of street vending activities in developed and developing economies, the local authorities consider street vending to be a problem for urban management. The street vendors are most of the time at best ignored, or at worse repressed by the local authorities. This situates street vending in unsafe position and to carry on the existence of a conflictual environment. There
several commentators, the central government, specifically uses tourism as a means of developing an infrastructure to complement other rural economic development policies to address issues of income disparities between rural and urban zones, and between east and western China (Ryan & Gu, 2009; Wu, 2004). Developing countries seek to expand the size of their economies and achieve convergence with the developing world, and as long as that is a policy, governments will seek to create more economic
The current underdevelopment at the grass root of the Nigerian society and politics has made it imperative for this paper to focus on the role of traditional institutions and Local Government Administration in Nigeria as agent that are supposed to enhance and promote development in the rural area. The basic argument of the paper is that during Pre-colonial days in Nigeria, traditional rulers enjoyed full power in their Kingdom, command respect and obedience from their subject; however colonialisation
II, and the country was swept by severe floods. Urban areas and rice fields were inundated and over 1,000 people died from destructive landslides in a year. People also had to face starvation from a severe food crisis. Even after the disastrous postwar period of floods, Japanese economy faced a serious water shortage problem emerged in rapidly urbanizing and industrializing regions. To fight off the flood and water shortage problems, the government focused on dam construction in 1960s and 70s. The
further propel economic growth and reduce energy dependency of a country. Though the importance of green vehicles has been realized by the government, corporate houses and even the consumers, there has not been enough acceptance of it in the market. There is still an uncertainty about the ecological and economic benefits that can be sought by switching to alternate fuel vehicles while lack of infrastructure, government policies to promote the green vehicles along with usage limitations like restricted
India came in 1935. During the first stage the growth was very slow and banks also experienced regular problems between 1913 and 1948. There were approximately 1100 banks, mostly small. To improve the functioning and actions of commercial banks, the Government of National Indian came up with The Banking Companies Act, 1949 which was later changed to Banking Control Act 1949 as per improving Act of 1965 (Act No. 23 of 1965). Source Bank of National Indian was interested with comprehensive abilities for
civilization. Study suggests 70 per cent of capitals are held by small and borderline farmers resulting in overcapacity on the agricultural land and decreasing farm production. This also results in relocation of farm worker in large numbers to the urban areas. In both the cases the people remains below poverty line. Entrepreneurship can perform a vital role in rural development. “Entrepreneur means one who