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Assessing the Status and Implications of Environmental Works under MNREGA in Uttarakhand

Singh, Atul - In: Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), ISSN: … 1 (2014) 2

In Uttarakhand, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGS or MNREGA) started functioning in the initial year 2006 with three districts and later in all districts in three phases. MNREGA is an act, passed in 2005, after the implementation of which employment has become the...

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THE BRAIN DRAIN PHENOMENON AND IT’S MANIFESTATION AMONG A SAMPLE OF ROMANIAN STUDENTS

DEACONU, ALECXANDRINA; POPESCU, ALEXANDRA MIHAELA; … - In: International Conference Modern Approaches in … 5 (2011) 1, pp. 150-155

This paper provides an overview of research issues related to the effects of the growing migration of highly skilled workers on the world economy and economic policy, with special reference to the students mobility. The brain drain phenomenon from developing countries has been lamented for many...

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Integral local development: "accommodating multiple interests" through entrustment and accountable representation

Ribot, Jesse C. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 1 (2001) 3/4, pp. 327-350

Accommodating multiple interests involves integrating across highly stratified societies. Integral local development is a means of integrating across these interests through locally accountable representative authorities entrusted with public powers. It is integral to the local community because...

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Aid, economic growth and environmental sustainability: rich-poor interactions and environmental choices in developing countries

Pfaff, Alexander; Barelli, Paulo; Chaudhuri, Shubham - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004) 1/2/3, pp. 139-159

investments in environment, in either of two forms, alters the income-environment relationships that otherwise exist, lowering … degrade the environment, a perverse effect exists: when an aid-giving country becomes richer, it gives less said to the poor … the past has durable effects upon the environment. …

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Employment: the political economic challenges

Stilwell, Frank - In: Global Business and Economics Review 1 (1999) 1, pp. 1-16

"go for growth", emphasise investment in "human capital", and to link employment to "equity and environment" objectives …

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Light Manufacturing in Zambia : Job Creation and Prosperity in a Resource-Based Economy

Dinh, Hinh T. - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This book on light manufacturing in Zambia is part of broader World Bank work on light manufacturing in Africa. The focus on light manufacturing, with its emphasis on labor-intensive economic activities, is particularly appropriate for a resource-based economy such as that of Zambia. While...

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Population Growth and Forest Sustainability in Africa

Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jingwa, Jingwa Brian - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2011

Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...

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The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Technological Change: A Specific Test of the Porter Hypothesis.

Asghari, Maryam - In: Iranian Economic Review 15 (2010) 3, pp. 95-115

Trade creates wealth through economic growth, and increased level of income effects environment in different ways … change from employment, income, food or housing to more qualitative measures such as cleaner environment. Through increased … to exploit the environment in order to survive. Secondly, with rising level of national income, the governments and …

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The Role of Human Development on Deforestation in Africa: A Modelling-Based Approach

Asongu, Asongu Simplice; Jingwa, Jingwa Brian - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2012

The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world. This study uses country-level data to model changes in forest area over an 18 year period (1990-2007) in 35 African countries and investigates the role played by important...

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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

irreversible investments in costly energy-saving technology and hydrocarbon substitutes. In the aftermath of the crisis, political … volatile streams of resource revenues while cutting back pollution of the energy industries. The global crisis facing the world …

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