Three billion people live in rural areas in developing countries. Conditions for them are worse than for their urban counterparts when measured by almost any de

The Future of Rural Manufacturing provides insights on the transformations that have occurred in manufacturing across rural regions in recent decades. It descri

This book examines the major rural developments and the issues that policy makers have been dealing with across the OECD over the last two decades.

This book provides an overview of the underlying problems in delivering services to rural regions.

This book addresses the rising productivity gap between the global frontier and other firms, and identifies a number of structural impediments constraining busi