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Georgia : Agricultural and Rural Enterprise Development
World Bank - 2013
The report is structured as follows. Section one examines the contribution of the rural economy to the national economy, the structure of the farm and non-farm sectors and their relative importance. Section two describes policies and constraints affecting the wider rural economy including,...
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Small enterprise growth and the rural investment climate : evidence from Tanzania
Kinda, Tidiane - 2008
"This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a difficult business environment. However, about...
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Sri Lanka : Promoting Agricultural and Rural Non-farm Sector Growth, Voume 2. Annexes and Statistical Tables
World Bank - 2013
Economic development has brought about, the decline in contribution of the agricultural sector to the economy of Sri Lanka, and, consistent with this economic transformation, the structure of employment also changed. Thus, as labor migrates away from agriculture, the productivity, for those who...
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The returns to participation in the nonfarm sector in rural Rwanda
Paternostro, Stefano - 2004
"Dabalen, Paternostro, and Pierre investigate the differences in outcomes (earnings and consumption) between individuals (households) who participate in the nonfarm sector and those who do not. They use propensity score matching methods where they create appropriate comparison groups of...
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Uruguay : The Rural Sector and Natural Resources, Volume 2. Annexes
World Bank - 2013
The report reviews the macroeconomic perspectives of Uruguay, focused on its rural development and natural resources intensive sectors, to form the basis for expanding agricultural production, and increasing productivity. It reviews the country's sectoral composition, exports of natural resource...
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Promoting the Rural Non-Farm Sector in Bangladesh : Volume 1. Summary Report
World Bank - 2013
disasters; (2) access to electricity; (3) road conditions, (4) access to finance and (5) transportation to markets. Bangladesh … rural households (as compared to 31 percent of all households). Third, Bangladesh ranks quite high in terms of road density … RNF sector and create a pro-poor virtuous circle of rural growth, Bangladesh will need to implement the two …
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Promoting the Rural Non-Farm Sector in Bangladesh : Volume 2. Main Report
World Bank - 2013
disasters; (2) access to electricity; (3) road conditions, (4) access to finance and (5) transportation to markets. Bangladesh … rural households (as compared to 31 percent of all households). Third, Bangladesh ranks quite high in terms of road density … RNF sector and create a pro-poor virtuous circle of rural growth, Bangladesh will need to implement the two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559312
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Agriculture investment sourcebook : agriculture and rural development
2005
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Rural development
1975
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Bulgaria : Public Expenditure Review for Agriculture and Rural Development
World Bank - 2012
Although Bulgaria now implements the European Union's (EU's) "common" agricultural policy (CAP), national policymakers still maintain responsibility to tailor CAP implementation to meet the specific development needs of the country. The National Rural Development Program (NRDP) very...
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