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In search of solvency: changing agricultural governance in an ethnic minority autonomous region of southwest China
Li, Yongxiang; Tilt, Bryan - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 6, pp. 626-641
During the last quarter century, China's agricultural sector has undergone a dramatic transformation from collective to private production, resulting in marked improvements in quality of life for most rural citizens. However, economic development in the countryside has been highly uneven,...
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In search of solvency: changing agricultural governance in an ethnic minority autonomous region of southwest China
Li, Yongxiang; Tilt, Bryan - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 6, pp. 626-641
During the last quarter century, China's agricultural sector has undergone a dramatic transformation from collective to private production, resulting in marked improvements in quality of life for most rural citizens. However, economic development in the countryside has been highly uneven,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564150
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Global employment trends 2013 : recovering from a second jobs dip [Chinese version]
International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations; … - 2013
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Global employment trends 2013 : recovering from a second jobs dip.
International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations; … - 2013
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Jalloh, Abdulai; Faye, Mbene Dieye; Roy-Macauley, Harold; … - In: West African agriculture and climate change: A …
on agricultural development. The most important foodcrops grown and consumed in West Africa are cereals—sorghum, millet …
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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Waithaka, Michael (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi … will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. East Africa's populations is …
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Policing reforms and economic development in African states: Understanding the linkages: empowering change
Marenin, Otwin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, ye
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Identifying and addressing land governance constraints to support intensification and land market operation: Evidence from 10 African countries
Deininger, Klaus; Hilhorst, Thea; Songwe, Vera - In: Food Policy 48 (2014) C, pp. 76-87
Beyond concerns about agricultural productivity growth, issues of land governance have attracted global interest as demand for land acquisition by outsiders has increased rapidly but most of the transfers failed to live up to expectations and instead disrupted local livelihoods. We use the land...
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Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in Africa
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012
Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control …
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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius Agbor - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We …-Saharan Africa. However, our findings do suggest that religion has important effects on the development process through its effects …
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