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EU AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND THE REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF AGRICULTURE IN POLAND
Crescenzi, Riccardo - EconWPA - 2004
The paper addresses the “spatial” structure of agriculture in Poland whose spatial development is analysed from the … process of progressive differentiation in the regional structure of agriculture which have produced the existing disparities … explores the linkages between the spatial evolution of agriculture and the increasing disparities in terms of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062521
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF OSUMENYI TOWN(NNEWI SOUTH LGA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA}
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
THIS PAPER ENUNERATES THE SEQUENTIAL HISTORIC ORIGIN OF OSUMENYI VILLAGE AND ITS CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS AND ECONOMIC PRACTICES. IN OTHERWORDS, THE PAPER WILL HELP TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGES AND ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN OSUMENYI'S HISTORY. THE PAPER RECOMMENDS THE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119014
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Elitist Land and Agriculture Policies and the Food Problem in Malawi
Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002
The author argues that conversion of over 1 million hectares of customary land to leasehold land tenure merely endowed the elite with excessive landholdings they did not fully utilise for tobacco production because it exceeded the requirement for production of the quota of tobacco output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134965
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Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Zambia during the 1990s
McCulloch, Neil; Baulch, Bob; Cherel-Robson, Milasoa - EconWPA - 2000
poverty headcount by 2015 suggest that Zambia is unlikely to meet this International Development Target unless policy reforms … reforms to the public sector. This paper uses household survey data from 1991, 1996 and 1998 to chart the evolution of poverty … the policies implemented and the observed changes in poverty and inequality. Our study finds a dramatic increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062532
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Rebuilding the State in Areas Affected by Political Violence: The Case of Rural Communities in Ayacucho, Peru
Velazco, Jackeline - EconWPA - 2004
increase in the quantity and quality of productive assets and of the human and social capital that will enhance agriculture and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412495
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Digital Divide in Estonia and How To Bridge It
Kalkun, Mari; Kalvet, Tarmo - EconWPA - 2004
Estonia is one of the most rapidly developing information societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Still, 61% of the Estonian adult population does not use the Internet. The analysis, carried out by the research company Emor and PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, looked thoroughly at the reasons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407742
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Desenvolvimento Rural na Sociedade do Conhecimento
Guedes, Pedro; Leito, Joo; Silva, Andrea - EconWPA - 2002
Globalization has a concrete territorial expression, with remaining regional asymmetries. Writers in growth and development are far away to achieve consensus about the underpinning reasons of heterogeneity in regional performance. This constitutes an important regional policy issue. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556192
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America Latina: Hambre y Alimentos en Abundancia
Lewin, Paul - EconWPA - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118772
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L’IDENTIFICAZIONE DEI DISTRETTI RURALI PER LA VALORIZZAZIONE TURISTICA DELLA SICILIA
Petino, Gianni - EconWPA - 2005
L’obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di sottolineare la necessità e l’utilità dei distretti rurali ed agroindustriali, sia per la valorizzazione turistica della Sicilia, che per il mantenimento della capacità produttiva ed il superamento delle ridotte dimensioni aziendali, ed anche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118952
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Catalysts for regional development: putting territorial coordination in practice
Gordillo, Gustavo; Wagner, Rodrigo - EconWPA - 2004
Lack of coordination among agencies at project level and scarce promotion of contracts at micro-scale are critical gaps widely spread in many Latin American regions. We discuss some specific and feasible mechanisms, namely: (i) alliances for rural development and (ii) contract promoters; that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119026