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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2003
Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526819
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SOCIAL CAPITAL, TRANSITION IN AGRICULTURE, AND ECONOMIC ORGANISATION: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
Valentinov, Vladislav - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2003
ABSTRACT Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038568
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Resilience capacity of South countries with respect to the global economic crisis: an empirical comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries
Lessoua, Albert; Diaw, Diadié; Sokic, Alexandre; … - EcoMod Network - 2013
This paper deals with the problem of vulnerability of developing countries and their resilience capacity with respect to external shocks. The analysis particularly considers the countries of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the transmission risks of the 2007 financial crisis were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902730
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Efficient Development Portfolio Design for Sub-Saharan Africa
Wiebe, Kirsten Svenja; Zon, Adriaan van - EcoMod Network - 2011
The Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (Stiglitz et al., 2009) published in September 2009 has brought back to the attention of policy makers and researchers that measuring a country’s development solely on the basis of GDP or GDP per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902780
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Program on Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems and Support Services. Phase II. Vol.7 - Lift irrigation in West Africa: challenges for sustainable local management. Final report
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907315
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Of Other Spaces? Hybrid Forms of Chinese Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dittgen, Romain - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 44 (2015) 1, pp. 43-73
entities – a state-owned company in Chad and privately owned commercial malls in Johannesburg, South Africa – engage with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273140
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An empirical assessment of the Dutch disease channel of the resource curse: the case of Chad
Kablan, Sandrine A.; Loening, Josef L. - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2007-2014
We examine the effects of the ‘natural resource curse' on Chad and find little evidence for Dutch disease. Structural … effects are small. Consistent with empirical evidence for neighbouring Cameroon, we observe minimal impact on Chad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278699
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Chad: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Chad
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
KEY ISSUES Context: Chad is a fragile country with weak institutional capacity that needs to manage volatile and … exhaustible oil revenues prudently to tackle its large development needs. Chad is enjoying a period of domestic political … multilateral assistance to Chad. The accompanying memorandum of economic and financial policies spells out in more detail the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245214
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Chad: 2013 Article IV Consultation and Assessment of Performance Under the Staff-Monitored Program-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Chad
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
The staff report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation on Chad focuses on economic background and policy. The country … show that Chad has been running much larger external current account deficits. Chad’s ability to tackle its developmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245710
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Is Chad affected by Dutch or Nigerian disease?
Kablan, Sandrine; Loening, Josef - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We examine the effects of the ‘natural resource curse’ on Chad and find little evidence for Dutch disease. Structural … effects are small. Consistent with empirical evidence for neighbouring Cameroon, we observe minimal impact on Chad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259421