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The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental development...
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The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557925
operationalizing a venture acceleration network in Russia. Venture acceleration network experiments highlight a multitude of challenges …
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The aim of this paper is to review the state of the productive infrastructure of Uruguay and the development policies that govern it and to propose policy options for the long term contribution to achieving a higher level of economic and sustainable development, based on the premise that there...
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-scale railway development began in other parts of the continent. In almost every case, the pattern was the same, with isolated lines … concessioning is just a temporary solution or whether some alternative approach is needed to ensure a long-term future for railway …
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This report describes and explains how, in the period 1990-2008, China's railway sector has contributed and responded … possibilities that lie ahead. In 1949, China had only 22,000 km of poorly maintained and war-damaged railway line, less than 1 …,000 km of which was double-tracked with none being electrified. Since then, the government has transformed the railway sector …
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In the 1990s, Zimbabwe's economic growth began to slow following a balance of payments crisis and repeated droughts. By the late 1990s Zimbabwe's economy was in serious trouble driven by economic mismanagement, political violence, and the wider impact of the land reform program on food...
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, Australasia, and northeast Asia), private mining railways and China, whose railway network has been covered in numerous other … railway networks, which will provide the starting point for efforts to increase rail in the transport mix. This report … network size; volume; passenger fares and freight tariffs; labor productivity; network density; and perceived service quality …
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The note first presents a brief overview of the Croatian railway sector, listing the main challenges that it is … and to secure the successful integration of the Croatian railway sector into the European Union (EU). It highlights the …
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not be able to emerge without a dramatic restructuring of its governance and organization. TCDD operates the state railway …
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