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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit

Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012

A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various … times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land …, fuel and food. This is leading to the further exploitation of previously unused land. [DB research]. URL …

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Can Ethical Trade Certification Contribute to the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals? A Review of Organic and Fair-trade Certification

Setboonsarng, Sununtar - eSocialSciences - 2009

The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among...

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Fertilizer Subsidy in India: Who are the Beneficiaries?

Sharma, Vijay Paul; Thaker, Hrima - eSocialSciences - 2010

Agricultural subsidies that encourage production and productivity have been widely criticized because of the cost of subsidies and they are perceived to be far from uniformly distributed. There is a general view in academic, policy and political circles that agricultural subsidies are...

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Demographics And Global Savings Glut

Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2005

There is growing evidence that demographic changes have played an important role in driving Asiaâ€™s economic transformation by generating high savings rates.In this report, the author argues that high savings rates help sustain high growth rates in two important ways. First, it generates...

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Long Term Trends in the Growth and Structure of the Net State Domestic Product in Kerala

Pillai, P. Mohanan; Shanta, N. - eSocialSciences - 2010

Kerala has been a model to other states for her achievements in social development. But in terms of economic growth her performance has for long been very poor and a matter of deep concern. In this context the turnaround in growth that has occurred in Kerala in the nineties , in contrast to the...

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The Nature of Rural Infrastructure: Problems and Prospects

Mitra, Siddhartha; Bery, Suman; B, Gupta D; Krishna, Reeta - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastructure provision are different from those of the urban, given the smaller size, density and per...

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Examination of Intense Climate-Related Disasters in Asia-Pacific

Thomas, Vinod; Albert, Jose Ramon G; Perez, Rosa T - eSocialSciences - 2012

The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific, amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in publicly available databases for the world,...

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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World

United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012

The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the worldâ€™s people â€“ including more than a billion children â€“ now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...

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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion

Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011

Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...

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From Conflict to Reconstruction

Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2010

Governments frequently compartmentalize issues of reform and reconstruction into separate strategies and separate ministries (the fate of poverty reduction as well). Donors do likewise, for each has its own responsibilities; the IMF focuses on reform, the UN concentrates on conflict resolution...

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