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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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Value Chains and Global Inequalities: Plantain, Contract Farming, and Vulnerability of the Small-Scale Farmers in Colombia (Discussion Paper)
Baquero Melo, Jairo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The plantain is an important agricultural product worldwide. It is the staple food of millions of people, and represents a source of incomes for farmers participating in the international trade. In Colombia, the exportation plantain is chiefly harvested by small-scale farmers. However, they are...
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Linking Agricultural Trade, Land Demand and Environmental Externalities: Case of Oil Palm in South East Asia
Othman, Jamal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Reduction of support measures affecting soybean oil in the major soybean producing countries, as a consequence of WTO rules, coupled with rising demand for palm oil in non-traditional palm oil importing countries may lead to pronounced increases in agricultural land demand for oil palm expansion...
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Enhancing productivity, efficiency and international competitiveness of indian economy
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Indian economy has been recording impressive growth rates since 1991. This can be partly attributed to the multi-sector structural reforms aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency and international competitiveness of the economy. The reforms have been undertaken gradually with mutual consent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836195
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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor
Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
poverty worldwide. But the impacts of global trade policy and domestic development policy reforms are rarely, if ever …-benefit analysis, this paper contributes at filling this gap by focusing on the comparison of the distributional poverty impacts of … world would impact poverty in Malawi. The country’s recent agricultural growth history due to the Fertilizer Input Subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258811
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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Fiscal Scenario of South Asian Countries: Implications for Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation
Akram, Naeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Sustainable economic growth and Poverty alleviation is a principal objective of the developing countries. The present … resource drain for already limited revenues and is halting economic growth and poverty reduction efforts. …
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Women Financing and Household Economics
Swamy, Vighneswara; B K, Tulasimala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study has uniquely established that financing women though Self Help Groups has a significant role in empowering women, which is a smart economics indeed in achieving the objective of economic development of the weaker sections. The findings of this study establish using the statistical...
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Reforms in Institutional Finance for Inclusive Growth
Swamy, Vighneswara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyses the need, significance and the advantages of ‘reforms in institutional finance for inclusive growth’ in the context of Indian economy and offers some practicable suggestions from the functional perspective. India’s Rural Financial Architecture (RFA) is subject to...
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Impact of Self Help Groups on the food security and non-food consumption of weaker sections of the society
Swamy, Vighneswara; B.K., Tulasimala - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Microfinance across the globe is being practiced as a tool to mitigate poverty and chiefly as an empowerment tool to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114553