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Addressing food self-sufficiency in Tanzania: a balancing act of policy coordination
Msuya, E. E; Isinika, A. C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the performance of food production and productivity in Tanzania since 2000, in relation to post …-SAP policies. This discussion assumes that individual households in Tanzania strive to achieve food security through own production … performance of food production and marketing, at the micro and macro levels, during the post-SAP period in Tanzania, as influenced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018268
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Capacity Building In Information And Communication Management (ICM) Towards Food Security
Temu, Andrew; Msuya, Elibariki Emmanuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper addresses capacity strengthening needs in the area of ICM to support food security initiatives. It fully acknowledges that FS is a state of assuring physical availability and economic accessibility to enough food in terms of quantity (amount, distribution, calories), quality (safe,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619562
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The impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being: evidence from Bangladesh
Sonia, Akter; Syed Abul, Basher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over the period 2007–2010, we estimated a three-stage hierarchical logit …–2008 unequivocally aggravated food insecurity in the rural areas of Bangladesh in 2008; (2) there was some weak evidence to suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259538
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The modernity of backwardness
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate framed in Robert Brenner’s classic critique of World Systems and Dependency Theory. It was originally presented to the July 2007 conference of the International...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836280
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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results
Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111073
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Explaining national inequality: the relevance of Marx and the irrelevance of equilibrium
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper was originally presented at the ‘Marxism and Political Economy’ conference called by the International Socialist Journal on Saturday 29th September 2007. A revised version was presented to the Historical Materialism conference on 13th November 2007. It enquires why, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790338
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The Poverty of Statistics
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper is a prepublication version of a paper accepted for publication by Third World Quarterly. It offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends, it shows, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034370
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Botswana’s revealed comparative advantage
Makochekanwa, Albert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Analysis of Botswana’s competitiveness in world trade has been presented based on indices of revealed comparative … advantage (RCA) calculated for the period 1999 and 2004. Results show that Botswana has RCA in diamonds, copper matte, and meat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367969
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Economic Development in Pre-Independence Botswana, 1820-1966: Historical Trends, Contributing and Countervailing Factors
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the trajectory of economic development in Botswana between the years 1820 and 1966, when it … then proceed to analyze what factors have encouraged or hindered economic development in Botswana: In particular, I focus …, demographic trends, as well as on ethnic divisions and cultural belief systems. Finally, I discuss how prepared Botswana was for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684900
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The stuff of legend: diamonds and development in southern Africa
Noland, Marcus; Spector, Brooks - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This essay establishes four propositions. First, the diamond industry has been a positive force for development in southern Africa. Second, jewelry, among the most profitable segments of the industry, is a non-essential luxury, and accordingly, consumer concerns over conflict diamonds pose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025715