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Article: Periodic markets and rural transformation in Gonda District, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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- March 22, 1998
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Periodic markets are centers for exchange of common goods and services, in both cities and the countryside, all over the world. Held at a regular time and place, these markets link small towns and their surroundings to create grassroots-level networking trade systems throughout the developing world. For impoverished and less-industrialized economies, periodic markets are the logical and appropriate places for peasant families to obtain goods and information.
Organized in a rational manner, a region's several periodic markets require spatial and temporal integration to work smoothly: meeting days are distributed among the seven days of the market week, with schedules ...