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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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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?
Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790263
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FDI in Multi-brand Retail Trade and the Safeguards
K, S Chalapati Rao; Dhar, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
After a long and winding process, India opened the retail trade to foreign direct investment (RFDI) albeit with some … repeated attempts by Walmart to meet important relevant functionaries in India. Once the policy makers were convinced either on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113219
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194754
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617139
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777066
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108997