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The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the … of their occupation. About 67 percent of the population in India is aged 15-64 years while 27 percent is aged 0-14 years … (UNFPA n.d.). This offers both a challenge and an opportunity to skill the youth as well as the existing workforce in India …
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, food insecurity, weak economic growth and the widespread food poverty in Africa today. Due to overreliance on rain …-fed agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa, people usually engage in both temporary and permanent migration after consecutive years of bad …
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This paper provides a literature review on youth employment challenges in rural Africa. The rapidly changing … Africa, and the latter is growing especially fast, even though it remains much lower than farming in absolute terms. Despite …
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India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007-08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to … India's ban on exports of wheat and common rice. But the fiscal stimulus that the government provided in 2009 in the wake of … G8 countries' call to avert economic recession, coupled with one of the worst droughts India experienced in that year …
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India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …
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Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
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This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies conducted in the Sahelian countries during 2019- 2020 as a collaboration between national universities and research institutes, and the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, with contributions from the Agrhymet Regional...
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to putting India on the IT global map, and mixed in the case of the medical brain drain out of Africa. -- Brain drain …, and the contribution of the Indian diaspora to the rise of the IT sector in India. While the three case studies concern …
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Output per worker is lower in poor countries than in rich countries, and relatively more so in the agricultural sector. Sorting of heterogeneous workers can contribute to explain this fact if comparative and absolute advantage are aligned in agriculture, implying that average productivity in...
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Different interpretations of migration confront themselves in the political arena. Considering two factors, necessity and acceptability, the paper identifies four stereotyped visions: the society of the walls, the society of mercy, the society of ghettos, and the society of reason. The first...
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