fact. It does so by looking at arable land conversion in coastal provinces (from agriculture to industry or urban …Rapid economic growth involves significant changes in land use patterns. The paper uses the recent history of Chinese …. It argues that though land use change is an important underlying dimension of the massive structural transformation …

This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region …. Considering the high rate of unemployment (especially the youth unemployment) and poverty in most countries in the region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be …

conclude that there is a reform failure matched by a failure to reform. The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the three countries …

public service provision while aiming to improve the livelihoods of the poor and overcome the institutional nature of poverty …