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Sources of Growth in Post-Conflict Burundi: From Destruction to Production
Nganou, Jean-Pascal; Kebede, Ephraim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Burundi, a small fragile economy, went through sporadic civil war since its independence in 1962 during which rampant insecurity had adverse impact on the country’s social and economic development. While Burundi is agriculturally rich, high rate of growth of rural population places...
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The strategic role of the Food Research Institute in productivity enhancement and the private sector development in Ghana
Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Private Sector Development Project (PSDP) was a culmination of the renewed commitment of the Government of Ghana to accelerate the pace of development of Ghana’s private sector. The project was also a direct result of the Business Community’s own assessment of Lingering issues which...
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Report on the socio-economic impact of Natural Rubber cultivation under the block planting scheme in Tripura
Joseph, Joby; George K., Tharian; S.K, Dey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study is a pioneering attempt to assess the socio-economic impact of the Block Planting Scheme (BPS) from the angle of the beneficiaries,implementing agencies and the policymakers.The report is based on the primary information gathered from 480 households drawn from Block Planting Units with...
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Resource Scarcity and Environmental Adaptation in Poorer Societies
Namasaka, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Resource scarcity and environmental degradation due to population growth could be one of the reasons why poor societies, especially those that are dependent on resources, are failing to achieve high rates of growth and sustained economic growth . This debate has long been running, extending back...
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
opportunities, is a central element of viable poverty reduction strategy for Bangladesh as well. Without significant poverty …
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Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Mercosur
Bharati, Preeti; Fulginiti, Lilyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We revisit earlier estimates of agricultural productivity in original Mercosur member countries and later associates: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, for 1972-2002. We estimate a translog frontier production function and revise our...
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Ghana's Economic Growth in perspective: A time series approach to Convergence and Growth Determinants
Baafi Antwi, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
economy as some point in the future. This is known as the convergence hypothesis. In this study, we test this hypothesis for … whether or not it holds. We determine how fast or slow this convergence process is by using the returns to scale concept on … hypothesis of convergence i.e. Ghana is catching up with the Western European countries. The study also shown that Ghana growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564519
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Nonlinear growth effect of remittances in recipient countries: an econometric analysis of remittances-growth nexus in Bangladesh
Hassan, Gazi; Shakur, Shamim; Bhuyan, Mohammed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
to understand the impact of inward remittances flows on per capita GDP growth in Bangladesh during 1974-2006. We find … utilisation. Remittances positively affect per capita GDP growth in Bangladesh when the complementarity between remittances and …
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Ericulture as a Remedy of Rural Poverty in Assam: A Micro Level Study in Barpeta District
De, Utpal Kumar; Das, Manjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Ericulture i.e., rearing of eri cocoon and spinning as well as weaving of endi clothes has been an integral part of the rural economic activities especially of the rural women in Assam. Though both male and female folk of all sections of rural population have been engaged in different...
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Environmental lobbying with imperfect monitoring of environmental quality
Beard, Rodney; Mallawaarachchi, Thilak; Salerno, Gillian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper we present a two stage game of political lobbying for policies designed to enhance environmental quality. Unlike previous work which has tended to assume perfect monitoring of environmental quality in lobbying games we allow for imperfect monitoring of environmental quality. We...
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