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Rural Poverty in Developing Countries; Issues and Policies
Khan, Mahmood Hasan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for reducing poverty, taking into account the functional...
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition
Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
Massler •Rehabilitating China’s Loess Plateau by John Mackedon •Building on Successes with Regreening in the West African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735452
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Traffic exposure near the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex: using GPS-enhanced tracking to assess the implications of unreported travel and locations
Houston, Douglas; Ong, Paul; Jaimes, Guillermo; Winer, … - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2011
Traffic exposure assessments could misclassify the extent and locations of exposure if traditional recall surveys and … Positioning Systems (GPS) devices to track the diurnal patterns and traffic exposure of 47 residents of communities near the Los … exposures during the 5 h/day on average participants spent in high-traffic areas and about 30 min during the 4 h/day near truck …
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The Importance of Being Early
Parthasarathi, Pavithra; Srivastava, Anupam; … - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2009
loop detector data provide link level traffic flow data. …
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Development of Rural Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Desarrollo de las economías rurales en América Latina y el Caribe
Berdegué, Julio A.; Piñeiro, Martín; Escobar, Germán; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772379
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Development of Rural Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Desarrollo de las economías rurales en América Latina y el Caribe
Berdegué, Julio A.; Piñeiro, Martín; Escobar, Germán; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943434
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The rise of middle class in rural China
Yuan, Zhang; Wan, Guanghua; Khor, Niny - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 36-51
rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or drivers of changes in the size of middle class are … middle class in rural China. Findings – Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 … percent of China's rural population belonged to the middle class; the size estimate of China's rural middle class based on …
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Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory
Woolcock, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social†(or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it. The argument in this paper proceeds as follows. In recognizing that poverty is...
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Rural labour in Latin America.
A, De Janvry; E, Sadoulet; L, Wilcox - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on agricultural employment in Latin America - covers rural population trends, rural migration, occupational structure, farm size, landlessness, wage rates, unemployment, wages, incl. Family workers, labour contracts, household income, and rural area poverty....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966014
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Population and poverty in rural southern Sudan: a case study of the acholi area.
WJ, House; KD, Philips-Howard - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the rural population and rural area poverty in the Acholi area of Southern Sudan - based on sample surveys of rural households, explores the economic conditions and demographic aspects of the population, 90% of which is involved in subsistence farming; examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966555