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Among the important issues debated in the current phase pertaining to the agricultural sector include the expectations about the next technological phase and the efficiency parameters during the current phase. Growing population as well as income enhances the demand for agricultural products and...
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Among the important issues debated in the current phase pertaining to the agricultural sector include the expectations about the next technological phase and the efficiency parameters during the current phase. Growing population as well as income enhances the demand for agricultural products and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365396
costs of attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four case … meeting some of the more quantifiable MDGs (e.g., education, health, and environment). …
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and women empowerment; reduction of child mortality; improvement of maternal health; control of HIV/AIDS, malaria and … geared towards the achievement of the millennium development goals (MDGs) particularly the specific targets set for each of … the eight MDGs. The MDGs include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality …
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The second goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to achieve universal primary education. The target is to … reach all the MDGs by 2015. Trends in education indicators for monitoring the second MDG suggest that Philippines may …
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services necessary to achieve the MDGs. The analysis attempts to quantify the fiscal space to finance the MDGs and identify the … necessary fiscal reforms required to finance the MDGs in a sustainable manner. The next section outlines the analytical … financing requirements for achieving the MDGs and compares it with the Tenth Plan outlay. Section 4 explores the prospects of …
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region or country. That these rates in India have been rather high particularly for women is a matter of concern. As Floud … health status. Due to limited information base on BMI very few studies in India have analysed the determinants of CED (which … status). This paper attempts to do so based on a sample of ever-married women in the age group of 15-49 years in the North …
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The industrial transformation of Asia is a development on a scale unprecedented in human history. Following the industrial revolution towards the end of the eighteenth century, Europe and North America each in turn came to dominate the world economy and global power. Now economic weight is...
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This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consider the total production cost minimization problem by a multinational company (MNC) in allocating...
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This paper presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigation of the impact of mutual knowledge exchange on the knowledge production function using data...
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