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Burundi; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper discusses the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for Burundi. The PRSP comes two and a half years after the approval in January 2004 by the Executive Boards of the IMF and the World Bank of the Interim PRSP (I-PRSP). The PRSP is also the outgrowth of a long period of negotiations...
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Urban Poverty and the Rural Development Bias
Marcus, Anthony; Asmorowati, Sulikah - In: Journal of Developing Societies 22 (2006) 2, pp. 145-168
modernization naturally occurs in cities and has as its ultimate destination development by urbanization. This has meant that …
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The Urban–Rural Divide and Food Sovereignty in India
Tom, Angotti - In: Journal of Developing Societies 28 (2012) 4, pp. 379-402
India is the second-largest nation in the world, with a population of 1.2 billion. As China rapidly urbanizes, India has become the last of the large nations where village life and traditional farm production survive. While weakened by neoliberal reforms, many government policies continue to...
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Impact of Economic Globalization on Urbanization
Narayana, M.R. - In: India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 66 (2010) 1, pp. 91-116
This article analyzes the impact of economic globalization on urbanization since July 1991, with special reference to … and capital, is shown to be low at global levels. Patterns of urbanization in the post-globalization period show higher … compare the growth-cum-equity implications of globalization on urbanization between India and other countries. This is …
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Fiscal Subsidies and Environmental Sustainability: What does the Cross-country Empirical Estimates Suggest?
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 3, pp. 383-397
A number of developed as well as developing countries provide subsidies to domestic players, leading to overproduction and over-exploitation of natural resources, which pose a serious threat to environmental sustainability. The analysis in this article attempts to understand the role of...
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Food security in Southern African cities
Crush, Jonathan; Hovorka, Alice; Tevera, Daniel - In: Progress in Development Studies 11 (2011) 4, pp. 285-305
potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once …
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Beyond the Rural–Urban Dichotomy
Schaeffer, Peter V.; Kahsai, Mulugeta S.; Jackson, … - In: International Regional Science Review 36 (2013) 1, pp. 81-96
. This is particularly true for a force as large and pervasive as urbanization which resulted in massive rural and urban … considered the opposite of urban, but in the process of urbanization, economic and social structures of rural and urban regions …
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Africa 2050
Racki, Jeffrey; Patel, Praful; DeGroot, David - In: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies 6 (2014) 1, pp. 15-34
The fast-evolving process of urbanization will transform Africa’s future. Urbanization can be harnessed to build an …
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Consequences of Unequal Urbanization on Development
Bhagat, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2014
Historically, urbanization has been a great force of economic transformation, modernization and social change in the … often escaped urban planning and governance. Maharashtra is a glaring example of regional disparity and unequal urbanization …
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The influence of agglomerations on firm profitability
SCHOENMAKER, S. DE; CAUWENBERGE, P. VAN; BAUWHEDE, H. VANDER - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2013
effects, this paper analyzes the impact of localization, urbanization and diversity on firm profitability. The sample consists … of Belgian single-establishment retail firms, during the period 2005-2010. The results show that urbanization has a …
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