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Myanmar, as you know, is military-based country. In recent years, there is some good news from Myanmar – one of the … infrastructure in connecting Yunnan to other countries in Indochina region. Consequently, the world is now glaring at Myanmar. It is … the fact that Myanmar has potential to become leader of Southeast Asia, economically, socially, and politically. This …
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This paper uses survey data collected from Kalaymyo, a small urban city in North West Myanmar, to characterize firms …
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Corruption is widespread in Myanmar, and this has significant negative effects on the country’s economic development …. In response, President U Thein Sein has made fighting corruption a priority. However, despite Myanmar’s gradual … issues still facing Myanmar, and lays out recommendations to strengthen the efforts to tackle them. These include stricter …
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Abstract This article is a part of a twin study. Drawing on the available evidence, in this paper the author examines the cost of compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries with reference to Africa. He shows that the burden of cost of compliance is entirely on...
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Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...
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Based on primary survey data, the study begins with a brief overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence on employment and livelihoods for rural households in Chapter I. A macro picture of the economy of Uttaranchal is presented in Chapters II and III based on the secondary data. The...
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Coca eradication has been aggressively pursued by the Colombian government to reduce the amount of land that agricultural households in the Andean country devote to this illegal crop. However, little work has been done to assess the causal effect of the policy on land allocation decisions. I use...
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The green revolution has, since the ‘60s, been the subject of lively debate among the international scientific community not only with regards to its technical aspects but, and above all, for socio-economic impacts it caused. The article starts with the analysis of the development theories for...
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The present study maps the organic vegetables value chain in the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It covers horizontal and vertical linkages, information and support services, price differentials, and packaging, branding and certification processes in an...
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The study describes the creation four clusters for organic vegetables along the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). These clusters have three goals: (a) to foster the conversion of conventional agricultural farming to organic production, and thereby enable...
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