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force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the least developed countries are affected by rapidly accelerating rural …
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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world … overcome poverty and advance economic growth. For these countries, climate change threatens to deepen vulnerabilities, erode …
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program on poverty and inequality. Our estimates indicate that the VBSP was quite effective. Participation on average seemed … computations indicate that the program decreased the head count of poverty for its participants by almost four percentage points …. Similarly, the program decreased the poverty gap index and the poverty-severity index by almost twenty percent. The impact on …
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Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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Both India and Eritrea are developing countries. India as a leader of Third world made a huge stride in human resource … development and agriculture development where as Eritrea, a young nation still striving hard to develop these areas and thus …
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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This report contains information on a rapid field assessment of Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia to: (1) gauge local communities’ perceptions of the need for local climate change adaptation strategies and their degree of satisfaction with existing interventions; (2) identify emerging...
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After a decade implementing the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) for the period 2001-2010, Comprehensive Poverty … poverty, rising inequality, and climate changes that can slow down the progress of MDGs. These report documents the successes …
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Indian economy has been recording impressive growth rates since 1991. This can be partly attributed to the multi-sector structural reforms aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency and international competitiveness of the economy. The reforms have been undertaken gradually with mutual consent...
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