Search Results - subject:"less-favored areas"

Provision of universal broadband service in Japan: A policy challenge toward a sustainable ICT infrastructure

Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2014

favored areas, universal service is currently provided for analog landline telephones by using a universal service fund system … framework and review its feasibility. In order to ensure that telecommunications services are universally accessible, in less …

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Provision of universal broadband service in Japan: A policy challenge toward a sustainable ICT infrastructure

Mitomo, Hitoshi - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

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Poverty Targeting, Resource Degradation and Heterogeneous Endowments A Micro-Simulation Analysis of a Less Favored Ethiopian Village

Kuiper, Marijke H.; Ruben, Ruerd - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Persistent and widespread poverty in less favored areas (LFAs) is attributed to fragile natural resources and poor …

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Policy impact on technical efficiency of Spanish olive farms located in less-favored areas

Lambarraa, Fatima; Kallas, Zein - In: Acta agriculturae Scandinavica / C : an official … 7 (2010) 2/4, pp. 100-106

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Population changes in mountainous less favored areas : a case-study for the Pieria Region (Greece)

Kyritsis, Ioannis E.; Tabakis, Nikolaos M. - In: Journal of world economic review 10 (2015) 2, pp. 137-147

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Provision of universal broadband service in Japan : a policy challenge toward a sustainable ICT infrastructure

Mitomo, Hitoshi (contributor) - International Telecommunications Society - 2014

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The impacts of IFPRI's global research program on the sustainable development of less favored areas:

English, John; Renkow, Mitch - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

appropriate development strategies and public investments for improving the well-being of individuals living in less-favored areas … (LFAs); and (b) to assess the appropriate targeting of various public investments to favored versus less-favored areas. The … studying constraints and opportunities for poor households in less-favored areas (LFAs). In the first section of the report, we …

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Agricultural technology choices for poor farmers in less-favored areas of South and East Asia:

Pender, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

technologies are being advocated to address the problems of poor farmers in less-favored areas of Asia, including low external … among poor farmers in less-favored areas of this region. Among the main conclusions of the review are the following: 1 … people in less-favored areas. 3. Key requirements for technologies to be taken up by farmers and to have a substantial impact …

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RURAL WOMEN AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A CASE STUDY IN HERAKLION CRETE PREFECTURE, GREECE

LASSITHIOTAKI, AIKATERINI - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 16 (2011) 02, pp. 269-284

This article investigates the entrepreneurial beliefs/attitudes, ambitions, expectations, goals and visions of rural women who choose to cooperate and found Women's Rural cooperatives in the Prefecture of Heraklion on the island of Crete. The results of a qualitative study involving a sample of...

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