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€™ findings related to five critical questions. (1) What link exists between ICT growth and economic growth? (2) Do weak …
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? The book presents researchers' findings related to five critical questions. (1) What link exists between ICT growth and …
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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an …
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Wage or employment subsidies have been used in both developed and developing countries to raise employment levels … massive unemployment problem. This paper takes stock of the international literature and conducts an economywide macro … investigates whether this policy measure is appropriate in dealing with South Africas particular sources of unemployment. We argue …
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Rapidly increasing mobile phone coverage, cheaper technology, and an open platform that allows for the development of applications that extend the use of mobile devices provide new ways to reach farmers in isolated places. We investigate the impact of an intervention that uses information and...
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debate by assessing the induced gender employment bias of current taxation policies in these countries. It explores the … pattern of male and female employment and discusses the indirect tax distortions across sectors within each country and … between countries. The possible impact of the indirect tax distortion on male and female employment is quantitatively assessed …
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generated additional jobs, but the share of employment growth from these sectors was small and skewed more toward higher …
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