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Territorial Governance : Local Development, Rural Areas and Agrofood Systems
Torre, André - 2011
1 Introduction -- 2 Changing Trends in Rural Self-Employment in Europe and Turkey -- 3 A New Form of Small Industrial Business in Rural Area: To Exceeding the Local Roots? -- 4 The Modalities of Territorial Embeddedness of French Cooperative Groups -- 5 Strategies for Sustainable Regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015288
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Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis
O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2013
1 Introduction -- 2 The Spatial Policy Context of Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Change in Rural Ireland -- 3 A Review of Microsimulation for Policy Analysis -- 4 The SMILE Model: Construction and Calibration -- 5 Validation Issues and the Spatial Pattern of Household Income -- 6 Farm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016229
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Decentralised Governance, Development Programmes and Elite Capture
Rajasekhar, Durgam; Babu, M. Devendra; Reddy, R. Manjula - 2018
(GPs), the lowest tier in the rural local self-government structure in India. Inclusive growth being the cherished goal of … all the developing countries, including India, the book assesses whether checks and balances incorporated in development …, such as SHGs, in ensuring development benefits reach marginalized groups. The policy makers in India introduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396914
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Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India : Challenges and Opportunities
Bhattarai, Madhusudan (ed.); Viswanathan, P. K. (ed.);  … - 2018
in the context of India, but also for similar schemes in countries in South and South-East Asia as well as in Africa, and … MGNREGA -- Has Profitability of Foodgrain Production declined after Implementations of MGNREGA in India? -- From EGS to MNREGA … Creation in South India -- MGNREGS and Inclusive Development: A Case study in Tripura, North East India -- Inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304505
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2017
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Lloyd, Ainsley - 2017
This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the wold by combining individual data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397437
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016
Acs, Zoltan; Szerb, László; Autio, Erkko - 2017
This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397482
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Social Welfare Functions and Development : Measurement and Policy Applications
Kakwani, Nanak - 2016
Nanak Kakwani and Hyu Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction. Arguing that the measurement of development cannot be value-free, the authors assert that if indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397891
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2014
Acs, Zoltán J. - 2015
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 National Systems of Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3 Institutions, Incentives, and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index -- Chapter 5 Methodology and Data Description -- Appendices.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019100
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Institutions, Human Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies
Tridico, Pasquale - 2011
This book analyses the development path of transition economies in European Countries and former Soviet Republics that have experienced the transformation from planned economies to market economies since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It examines economic growth, institutional change and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053946
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Inequality, Poverty and Well-being
McGillivray, Mark (ed.) - 2006
This book examines inequality, poverty and well-being concepts and corresponding empirical measures. Attempting to push future research in new and important directions, the book has a strong analytical orientation, consisting of a mix of conceptual and empirical analyses that constitute new and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054237