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The development of private farms in Vietnam
Kojin, Emi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
The objective of this paper is to explore the entities that have developed private farms (trang trai) in Vietnam. Various types of private farms have emerged in the last ten years. It is noteworthy that the owners of private farms are not necessarily agricultural households but also include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134438
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Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania
Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583827
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Casting a voice for rural struggles during apartheid : the case of AFRA
Sato, Chizuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
This paper explores the attempts to co-ordinate rural resistance and struggles in South Africa during apartheid through a case study of the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA), a land NGO established in Natal in 1979. It was a small group but had a significant local and national impact. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547635
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Caste, land, and migration : a preliminary analysis of a village survey in an underdeveloped state in India
Tsujita, Yuko; Oda, Hisaya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
This paper explores migration from Bihar, one of the most underdeveloped states in India, by paying particular attention to social class (caste) and landholdings. After describing details of individual migrants, we present our preliminary findings on the determinants of migration, based on our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540681
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Development of land rental market and its effect on household farming in rural China : an empirical study in Zhejiang Province
Hoken, Hisatoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of land rental market development on the efficiency of labor allocation and land utilization in rural China. To test the hypothesis that the shadow wage of a rent-in household with limited off-farm opportunities will increase with the development of a land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650718
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Agriculture Plus Plus : growth strategy for Myanmar agriculture
Kudo, Toshihiro; Kumagai, Satoru; Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
The development of agriculture is a main pillar of Myanmar’s growth strategies. It is natural for the Myanmar government to prioritize agriculture as a source of economic growth, since it accounted for 36% of GDP, employs a majority of labor force, and generates nearly 30% of exports as...
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Land and labor reallocation in pre-modern Japan : a case of a northeastern village in 1720-1870
Arimoto, Yutaka; Kurosu, Satomi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family life cycle events is premised on making full use of resources for each farming household and for the economy as a whole. This paper examines how and how well households in...
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Impact of foreign capital entry in the Indonesian banking sector
Hamada, Miki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
After the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98, the Indonesian banking sector experienced significant changes. Ownership structure of banking sector is substantially-changed. Currently, ownership of major commercial banks is dominated by foreign capital through acquisition. This paper examines...
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Transformation of the Financial Sector in Indonesia
Hamada, Miki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2003
. History of the Indonesian Financial system The year 1966 saw the emergence of commercial banks in Indonesia. It can be said … implemented, and the banking sector that is the basis of the current financial system in Indonesia was built up. The Indonesian … consisted of Bank Indonesia (the Central Bank) and the state-owned banks. There was also a system for distributing the abundant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222521
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Industrialization in Indonesia since the 1970s
Ishida, Masami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2003
, Indonesia's economic development had drawn expectations and attention from various quarters, along with Malaysia and Thailand … Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy," recognized Indonesia as one of the East Asian economies with the strong … the driving force behind Indonesia's economic growth during that period. Since the 1997 outbreak of the Asian currency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222522