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Rural-urban relations in the context of sustainable development. Case Study: Cuejdiu Valley Basin, Neamt County

Ghiurca, Ana-Andreea; Lamasanu, Andreea; Mihai, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Rural and urban development in sustainable context is a complex process that requires an improvement of the existing situation and a removing of the dysfunctions. Over time, the rural area was not addressed as much as urban area, rural analysis is often fragmentary explained and incomplete...

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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania

Msuya, Elibariki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

examined. Factors that hinder FDI flow to agriculture in Tanzania are assessed. Specifically, the role of FDI in improving an … agricultural firm’s efficiency in Tanzania and reforms required for more effective investment promotion in agriculture are examined …. An important implication of the results is that FDI to Tanzania and specifically to agriculture, has a much more far …

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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities

Wall, Howard J. - 2011

This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...

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Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania

Turek - Rahoveanu, Adrian; Andrei, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 3rd International symposium entitled: ‘Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania’, organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...

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Farmers as knowledge brokers: Analysing three cases from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Nguyen, Quy-Hanh; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The paper explores the novel dimensions of agrarian change and of an agricultural knowledge‐creation culture in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta by examining cases of farmers engaged in knowledge brokering. Farmers empowered with knowledge, and through intensive engagement in networks and communities...

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Knowledge Loss: Managing Local Knowledge in Rural Uzbekistan

Wall, Caleb; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Knowledge loss is not a remote phenomenon, unique to one knowledge system. Rather we argue that the loss of knowledge is an issue for other knowledge systems as well. Knowledge loss is certainly a concern for anthropologists working on indigenous knowledge, fearful of ‘losing’ indigenous...

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L'evoluzione della ruralità nei Paesi in via di sviluppo (PVS). Approcci teorici ed applicativi

Pisani, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...

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Crop Prices, Agricultural Revenues, and the Rural Economy

Weber, Jeremy; Wall, Conor; Brown, Jason; Hertz, Tom - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

U.S. policy makers often justify agricultural subsidies by stressing that agriculture is the engine of the rural economy. We use the increase in crop prices in the late 2000s to estimate the marginal effect of increased agricultural revenues on local economies in the U.S. Heartland. We find that...

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Changing Character of Rural Economy and Migrant Labour in Punjab

Singh, Lakhwinder; Singh, Inderjeet; Ghuman, Ranjit Singh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Rural economy of Punjab has been undergoing structural transformation. But the dependence of rural population in general and rural labour in particular for earning livelihood from the rural economy continues. This process of rural transformation has perpetuated the distress among the rural...

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Adapting the Romanian rural economy to the European agricultural policy from the perspective of sustainable development

Burja, Camelia; Burja, Vasile - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

One of the major objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy is the sustainable development of the agricultural sector and of the rural area. Romania, as a country recent integrated in the European Union, has to pass an adapting process to the CAP, in order to achieve sustainable farming...

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