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Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At … countries, are largely attributable to LDC's in Asia, and in particular Bangladesh. The very large rural-urban migration in … Bangladesh, in comparison with other least developed countries, is attributable to relatively strong push factors on the one hand …
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This paper depicts the agricultural policy reforms and structural changes in Bangladesh from independence to the … present times. Bangladesh agriculture has experienced major structural changes and achieved major successes over the last … and trade policy got a vibration of liberalization in the early 1990s. After the independence, Bangladesh followed a …
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Coca eradication has been aggressively pursued by the Colombian government to reduce the amount of land that agricultural households in the Andean country devote to this illegal crop. However, little work has been done to assess the causal effect of the policy on land allocation decisions. I use...
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Based on primary survey data, the study begins with a brief overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence on employment and livelihoods for rural households in Chapter I. A macro picture of the economy of Uttaranchal is presented in Chapters II and III based on the secondary data. The...
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Abstract This article is a part of a twin study. Drawing on the available evidence, in this paper the author examines the cost of compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries with reference to Africa. He shows that the burden of cost of compliance is entirely on...
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Throughout history, agriculture-led development strategies with state support programs have been essential to achieving rapid economy-wide growth, poverty reduction and structural transformation at early stages of development. Yet over the last three decades, the domestic and international...
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The present study maps the organic vegetables value chain in the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It covers horizontal and vertical linkages, information and support services, price differentials, and packaging, branding and certification processes in an...
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The study describes the creation four clusters for organic vegetables along the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). These clusters have three goals: (a) to foster the conversion of conventional agricultural farming to organic production, and thereby enable...
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The green revolution has, since the ‘60s, been the subject of lively debate among the international scientific community not only with regards to its technical aspects but, and above all, for socio-economic impacts it caused. The article starts with the analysis of the development theories for...
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universal healthcare coverage in Bangladesh. Lack of scientific study on designing such scheme, in the Bangladesh context … health insurance schemes (offered to various corporate houses) of some reputed insurance companies in Bangladesh. In addition …
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