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This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...
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Deficits in physical infrastructure, problems with availability of agricultural inputs and poor access to agriculture … and delivery of agricultural inputs and agriculture infrastructure. This paper investigates a series of questions that … and mobile-enabled agricultural services have an impact on agriculture? What are the factors that impede the realisation …
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Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in … prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification - all these factors can be a threat to food security. South Asia … (FAO) indicate that by 2010, Asia will still account for about one-half of the world's undernourished population, of which …
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At the present moment in history, humanity is faced with several major challenges, one of them being that of feeding an increasingly populous and urbanised planet. The challenge is even greater as it becomes clearer that it is not just a matter of producing enough fibres and primary products...
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Developing Asia experienced a sharp surge in foreign currency reserves prior to the 2008-9 crisis. The global crisis …
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Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...
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This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity model to examine the regional changes in trade in agricultural products. This is followed by a discussion of how this might affect the four dimensions of food security,...
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The persistent agrarian crisis facing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the recent food price hikes have provoked greater … is less agreement on the nature of and prospects for family farms in SSA, the scope of their contributions to agriculture …
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The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to...
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