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Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper discusses implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) in Mauritania. The second phase of the PRSP is accompanied by a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) for 2006–10. MTEF determines the overall cost of the action plan in terms of both current and capital...
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Agriculture Plus Plus : growth strategy for Myanmar agriculture
Kudo, Toshihiro; Kumagai, Satoru; Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
The development of agriculture is a main pillar of Myanmar’s growth strategies. It is natural for the Myanmar … government to prioritize agriculture as a source of economic growth, since it accounted for 36% of GDP, employs a majority of … labor force, and generates nearly 30% of exports as of 2010. Although the agricultural share in GDP and employment usually …
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Development strategy in Bihar through revitalizing the agricultural sector : a preliminary analysis
Fujita, Koichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
development, and then reviews the sluggish growth of agriculture in Bihar in the past and examines the major reasons for this. The … technology can be pointed out as important constraints. There is, in particular, the ‘paradox’ in Bihar agriculture of why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134401
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The development of private farms in Vietnam
Kojin, Emi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
The objective of this paper is to explore the entities that have developed private farms (trang trai) in Vietnam. Various types of private farms have emerged in the last ten years. It is noteworthy that the owners of private farms are not necessarily agricultural households but also include...
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The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement and Agriculture in South Asia
Hirimuthugodage, Dilani - In: South Asia Economic Journal 12 (2011) 2, pp. 287-305
followed in implementing intellectual property rights in agriculture in order to promote investments and accelerate trade …
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Impact of Mining on Agricultural Productivity
Mishra, Prajna Paramita; Pujari, Ayan Kumar - In: South Asia Economic Journal 9 (2008) 2, pp. 337-350
productivity due to mining activities. Apart from this, we observe a shift in livelihood from agriculture to mining related work …
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Economic Growth, Appropriate Policies and Poverty Reduction in a Developing Country
Tambunan, Tulus - In: South Asia Economic Journal 6 (2005) 1, pp. 59-78
from Indonesia support the notion that growth is good for the poor? Second, does growth in agriculture matter for poverty … positively correlated with poverty reduction, and the output or income growth in agriculture appears to have the strongest effect …
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Economic Development and the Developmental State
Dadzie, Richard B. - In: Journal of Developing Societies 29 (2013) 2, pp. 123-154
This article presents evidence on the divergent development experiences of Ghana and Malaysia. Various demographic, social, and development indicators are carefully analyzed. Factors that explain Malaysia’s development miracle are discussed. The state’s capacity to engineer...
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Madhya Pradesh: Does Agriculture Determine the State’s Growth Trajectory?
Sapre, Amey - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 8 (2014) 1, pp. 39-57
This article empirically analyses whether agricultural growth performance determines the growth trajectory of the economy of an Indian state, namely Madhya Pradesh. Long-term growth trends of nearly three decades (1981–2011) in Madhya Pradesh show that fluctuations in agricultural growth...
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Gender Roles in Agriculture: The Case of Afghanistan
Tavva, Srinivas; Abdelali-Martini, Malika; Aw-Hassan, Aden - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 20 (2013) 1, pp. 111-134
gender roles in agriculture in the conservative patriarchal society of Afghanistan. Rapid appraisal was conducted through …
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