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Global Crises and Developing Countries: Financial, Environmental, Resource and Food Perspectives
van der Ploeg, Frederick - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 3 (2009) 2, pp. 119-160
The global financial crisis has potentially many adverse effects on the developing world: falls in exports of goods and services to the OECD, dramatic falls in commodity prices and resource exports, and falls in remittances. Many of the poorer countries are heavily specialized and dependent on...
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Rapid urbanization, employment crisis and poverty in African LDCs:A new development strategy and aid policy
Herrmann, Michael; Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the … the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71% of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. But even … consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in the African LDCs. It is found that the …
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The impact of liberalisation policies on income inequality in african countries
Enowbi Batuo, Michael; Asongu, Simplice A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Despite over three decades of Liberalisation policies in Africa, income-inequality has stayed persistently high. Using updated panel data of 26 African countries spanning the period 1996-2010, this study examines the effect of liberalisation policies with particular focus on financial, trade,...
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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Achieving Bangladesh's tourism potential : linkages to export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy"
Honeck, Dale; Akhtar, Md. Shoaib - 2014 - Manuscript date: 26 August, 2014
majority of least developed countries (LDCs) - a challenging task in Bangladesh in the face of the country's success as an …
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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005
This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns...
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The informal Economy as an engine for poverty reduction and development in Egypt
Attia, Sayed Moawad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The purpose of this paper is handling the informal sector in Egypt and the role it can play in accelerating the development process and poverty reduction. The structure of the paper starts with an introduction, and then gives a definition of development and its objectives in order to give a...
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Rural Push, Urban Pull and... Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
Jedwab, Remi; Christiaensen, Luc; Gindelsky, Marina - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
Standard models explain urbanization by rural-urban migration in response to an (expected) urban-rural wage gap. The Green Revolution and rural poverty constitute rural push factors of migration. The Indus- trial Revolution and the urban bias are urban pull factors. This paper offers an...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Employment Status, Income Equality, and Poverty in Egypt
Abd El Hamid Ali, Hoda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present study examines trends in employment status in Egypt in an important era of democratic transition. It examines determinants of different labor force participation by gender. The empirical analysis is based on the World Values Survey of the fifth wave (2005-2008). A comparative...
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