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Une théorie des relations sociales emploi et inégalité
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
problem of gender gap as well as employment of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112561
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Special Economic Zones and Agriculture with Increasing Returns
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper has made an attempt to show that in a developing economy, agriculture and Special Economic Zones (SEZ) can go simultaneously without affecting one another if appropriate subsidy policy is designed by the government. We have considered increasing returns brought about by external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323935
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A theory of sharecropping: the role of price behavior and imperfect competition
Sen, Debapriya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper proposes a theory of sharecropping on the basis of price behavior in agriculture and imperfectly competitive nature of rural product markets. We consider a contractual setting between one landlord and one tenant with seasonal variation of price, where the tenant receives a low price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514902
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A theory of sharecropping: the role of price behavior and imperfect competition
Sen, Debapriya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper proposes a theory of sharecropping on the basis of price behavior in agriculture and imperfectly competitive nature of rural product markets. We consider a contractual setting between one landlord and one tenant with seasonal variation of price, where the tenant receives a low price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000635
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Microfinance and Missing Markets
Emran, M. Shahe; Morshed, A.K.M Mahbub; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The existing theoretical analysis of microfinance focuses on the nature of the loan contract such as group liability. We draw attention to the role of missing or imperfect labor market in understanding some of the important `second generation' debates in microfinance. Our analysis helps explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111423
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Male Worker Migration and Women Empowerment: The case of Bihar, India
Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Kumar, Anjani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Migration of population has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113868
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Employment, migration and livelihoods in the Hill Economy of Uttaranchal
Mamgain, Rajendra P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207091
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Family Labourforce as a Determinant of Tenancy-Labour Interlinked Contract
Kundu, AMIT - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
conditions the tied households can not only cross the reservation level of income but also can cross the poverty line. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622189
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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113815
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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor
Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
poverty worldwide. But the impacts of global trade policy and domestic development policy reforms are rarely, if ever …-benefit analysis, this paper contributes at filling this gap by focusing on the comparison of the distributional poverty impacts of … world would impact poverty in Malawi. The country’s recent agricultural growth history due to the Fertilizer Input Subsidy …
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