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Poverty and unemployment in Botswana are the major problems that the government is focusing its effort and attention on. The overall government aim is to eradicate poverty and diversify the economy away from diamond mining to create sustainable jobs. Agriculture is traditionally thought to be a...
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In many Asian countries, women play a significant but varying role in the management of livestock and the use of common resources plays an important role in animal husbandry, and can affect the health of some types of livestock. This paper concentrates on village livestock in Thailand and makes...
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for effective management. The collection and analysis of socio-economic and epidemiological data in rural Thailand plays …
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This paper stresses the importance of community-based forestry for the conservation of natural resources and alleviation of poverty in upland Yunnan. In contrast with state-managed forests, which account for the bulk of forested land in many countries, including China, community-based forestry...
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set out in the National Vision 2016. Currently, rural areas are persistently experiencing the highest poverty incidence … problem in 1985/86. Rural development in Botswana has been a central policy and strategy of government effort to improve the … welfare and standard of living since independence. Since the 1970s, a rural development council that was traditionally chaired …
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Much faith has been put in the increased supply of education as a means to promote national economic development and as a way to assist the poor and the disadvantaged. However, the benefits that nations can obtain by increasing the level of education of their workforce depends on the...
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The United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, passed by the General Assembly in September 2000, is assessed with particular attention being given to the Millennium Development Goals and associated targets outlined in the Declaration. The focus of the article is not so much on the extent to which...
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This article explores the socio-economic situation of female heads and poor heads of household in rural Botswana by … means of a case study of the village of Nshakazhogwe, a village considered to be typical for rural east Botswana. It … assisting female heads of household. On the face of it, policy seems to favour those rural heads of household that are not poor …
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This paper reports on and analyzes primary survey data obtained from a survey of household heads on the rural village … of Nshakazhogwe, a typical rural village in northeast Botswana. It examines the associations between the incidence of …
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the pattern of livelihoods in a typical rural village has changed and provide new perspectives on Botswana’s development … the rural economy but income transfers from out migrants members of rural based households. It will also be shown that the … proportion of the rural population that depend on agriculture that is poor is smaller than the non-poor, as is that among the …
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