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Impact on livelihoods: PRADAN's collaboration study of the 5% technology Purulia, West Bengal, India. Poverty-Focused Smallholder Water Management: an IWMI research project support...
Pangare, V.; Karmakar, D. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907330
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Background report: Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
Nishshanka, R.; de Silva, Shyamalie; Clemett, Alexandra; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274144
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The changing face of irrigation in Kenya: opportunities for anticipating changes in Eastern and Southern Africa
Blank, H. G.; Mutero, C. M.; Murray-Rust, H. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132032
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Rangeland Degradation in North China Revisited? A Preliminary Statistical Analysis to Validate Non-Equilibrium Range Ecology
Ho, P. - In: Journal of Development Studies 37 (2001) 3, pp. 99-133
numbers and rainfall. The analysis is conducted with figures from the People's Republic of China: a state in which rangeland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292275
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Land Tenure Reforms and Land Conservation Investments in China ¨C What Does Real Option Value Theory Tell Us?
Ma, Xianlei; Wesseler, Justus; Heerink, Nico; Qu, Futian - In: Review of Economics & Finance 3 (2013) August, pp. 19-33
. Using real option value theory, this paper investigates the expected impact of the market-oriented tenure reforms in China … reforms and land conservation investments, and are likely to serve sustainable land management in China and elsewhere. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688379
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Tenure, land rights, and farmer investment incentives in China
Li, Guo; Rozelle, Scott; Brandt, Loren - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 19 (1998) 1-2
The goal of this paper is to understand the nature of the property rights associated with China's land tenure systems … and associated property rights in rural China affect the production behavior of farmers. The most robust finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069344
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
Giles, John T.; Mu, Ren - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078392
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Brakes on Chinese Development: Institutional Causes of a Growth Slowdown
Hodgson, Geoffrey M.; Huang, Kainan - In: Journal of Economic Issues 47 (2013) 3, pp. 599-622
China has enjoyed spectacular economic growth since the 1980s. Economic models based on production functions typically … suggest that China's rapid growth will continue at similarly high rates, but they ignore pressing structural and institutional … institutional reform to help China develop in future decades. Reforms have to concentrate on political structures, state efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698382
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Circulation and proletarianisation.
G, Standing - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of labour mobility and rural migration in the formation of working class attitudes characteristic of capitalism (proletarianisation) - discusses relationships with division of labour, and considers elements of social conflict inherent in workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965875
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Indigenous peoples and oil development : reconciling conflicting interests
Tomei, Manuela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1998
Argues for an approach aimed not only at the material restoration of lost or injured assets, but also paving the way for social, economic and cultural rehabilitation of affected indigenous communities. Focuses essentially on Latin America and draws to an extent on the ILO's research and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966454