This paper focuses on the importance of Rural Banking and Rural Areas and their implications. The article defines Rural Livelihood as an occupation, as source of income and livelihood in the rural areas that include agricultural work and other allied rural employment such as labor, home industry, etc. The study has examined the economic conditions in developing countries, thus will determine th…
This article argues that the economic abstraction of fossil fuels into the medium of the market after 1973 makes its force and function in the global economy difficult to see, in the way that the source of a penumbra is obscured by the distribution of its effects over the visual field, but that Shell's invention of a unique (and now widely adopted) technique for scenarios thinking on the cusp o…
Reconstruction projects in Beirut, since the end of Lebanon's civil war, have drawn international attention and prestigious investors. Examples include the Four Seasons Hotel and the waterfront Marina Towers, which sit on land worth over US$300 million. However, such apparent prosperity is undermined by the fact that 60% of the Lebanese population lives below the poverty line.
Scholarly accounts of screen media in the Palestinian Territories have traditionally focused on the means by which artists overcome tremendous financial and logistical obstacles to creatively express the histories, fears, and aspirations of Palestinian individuals and collectives. As Edward Said argues, visual storytelling plays a particularly crucial function in Palestinian society and politic…
This study critically examines whether BTS poses counterhegemony to the dominant Western popular culture as the literature claims. Investigating its recent hit music videos during the COVID-19 pandemic, I claim that BTS resuscitates the neoliberal hegemony in its seemingly empowering, positive messages and helps revive narratives of neoliberal biopolitics. Reviewing how hegemony becomes natural…
In the course of the current transition to a market economy, Polish state-owned enterprises are expected to change their functioning very quickly in order to 'adapt' to the new rules of the game. Nevertheless, adaptation to market principles is hampered by old cultural mind frames, which the actors adopted to cope with communist governance. The reasons behind this cultural 'lag' are examined in…
The decline in social capital has been cited as the main cause of popular discontent. Citizen disenchantment has been aggravated by economic restructuring, the dismantling of the welfare state and the devolution of government. The continued withdrawal and downsizing of state commitments fuels public perception that government does not work. As social welfare and safety net functions are devolve…
This study investigates the structure of consumer beliefs and attitudes toward advertising in a leading-edge, new market economy of Central and Eastern Europe--the Czech Republic. Based on a national sample, Czech consumers' beliefs about advertising's informational value and its role in the nation's economy explained their attitudes toward advertising significantly. Our data also revealed five…
The discourse of sustainable development represents a consensus between environmental conservation and industrial use. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that was held in the summer of 1992 attempted to initiate sustainable development policies aimed at improving the quality of human life. The major focus of UNCED was on the 400-page Agenda 21 and its initiativ…
This article investigates the problems that confront academe and suggests that faculty work has changed so profoundly in recent years that tenure is no longer sufficient and/or necessary. The author argues that intellectual freedom and accountability are competing demands that must be met simultaneously. He reviews the problems that exist, how tenure exacerbates those problems, and how an expan…