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Basic Income Worldwide : Horizons of Reform
Murray, Matthew C. (ed.); Pateman, Carole (ed.) - 2012
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world.
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Ecological Migration, Development and Transformation : A Study of Migration and Poverty Reduction in Ningxia
Li, Peilin (ed.); Wang, Xiaoyi (ed.) - 2016
After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of different scales, which have attracted considerable...
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid...
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Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Bangladesh
Rahman, Pk. Md. Motiur - 2013
The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty alleviation policies because the changes in income poverty are also accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy, gender parity in school, health care, infant mortality, and asset holdings. In order to examine...
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Rural Poverty in Latin America
López, Ramón (ed.); Valdés, Alberto (ed.) - 2000
This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments,...
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Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey : A Study for Critically Evaluating Market Friendly Reforms
Ünal, Fatma Gül - 2012
Ünal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within agriculture and its ability to reduce rural poverty. .
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The House of Tata Meets the Second Industrial Revolution : An Institutional Analysis of Tata Iron and Steel Co. in Colonial India
Nomura, Chikayoshi - 2018
1 Introduction -- 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations …This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by … causes of colonial India’s industrial growth, in addition to two renowned perspectives focusing on government economic policy …
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Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business Models : The Case of India
Agrawal, Anirudh (ed.); Kumar, Payal (ed.) - 2018
Part I. Theoretical Contextualization -- 1. Embedding Diversity in Social Entrepreneurial Research: India’s Learning … Laboratories; Shambu Prasad and Joseph Satish V -- 2. Education Conversations: Situating Social Enterprise in India’s Education … Innovation: A New Paradigm for India’s Sustainable Development; Ashok Prasad and Mathew J Manimala -- 7. Social Entrepreneurship …
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Supply Chain Social Sustainability for Manufacturing : Measurement and Performance Outcomes from India
Mani, V.; Delgado, Catarina - 2019
This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain. In the wake of emerging social issues in developing countries,...
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Strategic Implementation of Continuous Improvement Approach : Improving the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Singh, Jagdeep; Singh, Harwinder - 2019
This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-sized enterprises in manufacturing in order to meet the global challenges and competition. The book...
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