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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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Address of President Zillur Rahman to the First Session of 2011 of the Ninth Jatiya Sangsad
Rahman, Zillur - eSocialSciences - 2011
nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education and health and pharmaceuticals. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833436
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Snakes, Ladders and Traps: Changing Lives and Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh (1994-2001)
Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level detail, in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543109
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From Slash-and-Burn to Sustainability – A Study from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Miah, M. A. Monayem; Islam, Fakrul - eSocialSciences - 2008
because their traditional ‘slash and burn’ agriculture is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Farmers in these … cultivation in the hill district of Khagrachari with settled agriculture and new soil conservation techniques based around orchard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341835
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Shifting Cultivation and its Alternatives in Bangladesh: Productivity, Risk and Discount Rates
Miah, M. A. Monayem; Islam, S. M. Fakhrul - eSocialSciences - 2008
This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new … Khagrachari hill district of Bangladesh. …
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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699187
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Should Asian Countries Adopt Gm Crops Despite Trade Regulations
Gruère, Guillaume - eSocialSciences - 2009
crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trade regulations. [IFPRI Brief No.13] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512469
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Mitigating Seasonal Hunger: Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur; Mahmud, Wahiduddin - eSocialSciences - 2011
The seasonality of poverty and food deprivation is a common feature of rural livelihoods in Bangladesh, but it is more …
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