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Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful...
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benefit analysis of electricity and its impact on economic growth, agricultural production, industrialization, employment …
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, shows the negative impact of industrialization and positive impact of agricultural development on income distribution, and …
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the impact of industrialization on employment creation and basic needs satisfaction …
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, Mexico, prospects for the 1980s - examines the transition from import substitution industrialization to an economic model …
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Working paper on relationships between industrialization, employment, basic needs and social welfare programmes in Sri … labour force participation. Presents an evaluation of Sri Lanka's experiment with industrialization in relation to economic … growth, basic needs and employment objectives. Considers inter-action between industrialization and welfare programmes. …
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migration flows; concludes that attention to rural development at an early stage of industrialization avoids or shortens massive …
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Describes the types, causes and impact of gender-based occupational segregation and examines current levels in 15 countries. Investigates how this segregation has changed during the 1990s in terms of female participation in the labour force, index of dissimilarity, gender-dominated occupations,...
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Reviews recent empirical studies measuring the extent of occupational segregation by sex and the patterns of segregation across countries. The empirical studies cover nine OECD countries, as well as Cyprus, Israel, Malaysia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, USSR, Sudan and Taiwan.
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Deals with the impact of economic globalization on female employment and considers new areas of paid employment opened up for women.
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