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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China
Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004
This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely … Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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The analysis of policies to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty [FAST version]
Wilson, Edgar James - 2009
A collection of eighteen articles have been purposely chosen to demonstrate the development of the original and significant contributions of my research over the period 1990 to 2008. Despite the relatively large number of articles, which cover a range of related issues, there is a surprisingly...
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Klimaschutz und Ernährungssicherheit : ein ordnungspolitischer Ansatz
Presse, André; Häußner, Ludwig Paul; Köke, Sonja - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434475
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Weather Risk and the Off-­Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in India
Ito, Takahiro; Kurosaki, Takashi - 2006
labor allocation using household data from rural areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. The regression results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442450
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The Niger Food Crisis: Causes and Implications for Research and Development from an Integrated Agricultural Economics Perspective
Abele, Steffen; Twine, Edgar - 2006
During the 2004 food crisis in Niger, the weakness of the main production system, millet, to produce enough food to sustain short term crises, has been revealed. Questions arise how the Nigerian smallholder systems can be assisted by research and development policies to intensify production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442487
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Trade Policy Reforms in the Cereals Sector of the SADC Region: Implications on Food Security
Mutambatsere, Emelly - 2006
This study evaluates the welfare implications of tariff reforms in the cereals sector of the SADC region. Applying the global simulation model (GSIM), a multi-country partial equilibrium model, to the cereals industries of thirteen SADC countries, the study computes price and welfare effects of...
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An Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Mali’s Maize Subsector
Diallo, Amadou Sekou - 2011
In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...
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Rice Trade Policies and Their Implications for Food Security
Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J. - 2011
There is a strong linkage between the behavior of the rice market and the state of food security inmany regions around the world, particularly in Asia, as made evident in the 2007-08 commoditycrisis. Rice is a staple for the majority of the population in Asia, where roughly 60% of the close...
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Staple food prices in Kenya
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Njukia, Stephen - 2010
Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”,Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
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