- How can stakeholders’ capacity in soil management be improved?
- H Sseguya; A Lufafa / Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Uganda, 2003
- Degradation of the natural resource base is a major threat in many developing countries and has had a high international profile for more than 30 years. Central to natural resource degradation is degradation of soils. Uganda is no exc...
- Development of the agricultural production system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
- G. Kurzom / Ma’an Development Center, Gaza and West Bank, 2001
- This research paper seeks to propose informal popular agricultural production as an alternative to the formal Arab agricultural economic plans and policies, in general, and as an alternative to the formal Palestinian and international...
- New method for measuring national ICT penetration
- M. Minges / International Telecommunication Union, 2005
- There are many different indices which rank the world's countries according to their level of ICT penetration or their ‘e-readiness’, but there is no agreement on what indicators to include or what methodology to use. To tac...
- FAO attempts to mainstream gender into its MDG programming and monitoring
- Y. Lambrou / Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2005
- This paper offers some reflections on the monitoring process for the MDGs and highlights FAO relevant activities on gender and rural development. It also offers some recommendations for strengthening the rural component of the MDG pro...
- OECD aid statistics for 2004
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
- This document presents an overview of the volume of development aid from OECD countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA) to developing countries increased to USD 78.6 billion in 2004, its highest level ever. Taking into a...
- Global education statistics for 2005
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2005
- This report presents a wide range of comparable education indicators. The report is structured as follows: examination of the global situation of participation in secondary education, focusing particularly on lower seco...
- 2004 population statistics from the United Nations
- United Nations Population Division, 2005
- This report presents the highlights from the results of the 2004 revision of the official world population estimates and projections. The full report is due for publication at a later date in 2005. The 2004 revision is the firs...
- Agricultural data largely lacks a gender specific perspective
- D. Tempelman; N. Keita / Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2004
- This paper argues that there is a general lack of gender specific data relevant to the agricultural sector. In many countries, past policies for agricultural development often narrowly aimed at product growth, overlooking the importan...
- Action needed to address US and EU dumping of agricultural commodities
- S. Murphy; B. Lilliston; M. Lake / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005
- This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for fi...
- Improving systems to predict trends in immigration
- N. Howe; R. Jackson / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2004
- This paper aims to assess where projection-making agencies stand in their practice of immigration projection and to explore how theoretical insights about immigration may help them improve their practice. The focus of the survey is li...
- Agricultural data largely lacks a gender specific perspective
- D. Tempelman; N. Keita / Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2004
- This paper argues that there is a general lack of gender specific data relevant to the agricultural sector. In many countries, past policies for agricultural development often narrowly aimed at product growth, overlooking the importan...
- Action needed to address US and EU dumping of agricultural commodities
- S. Murphy; B. Lilliston; M. Lake / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005
- This paper documents the widespread dumping of agricultural products by global agribusiness companies based in the United States and European Union. It provides an extensive appendix with data and calculations from 1990 to 2003 for fi...
- Improving systems to predict trends in immigration
- N. Howe; R. Jackson / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2004
- This paper aims to assess where projection-making agencies stand in their practice of immigration projection and to explore how theoretical insights about immigration may help them improve their practice. The focus of the survey is li...
- Fertility is falling below population replacement levels in some countries
- United Nations Population Division, 2004
- The report documents changes in reproductive behaviour, including marriage and contraceptive use, in 192 countries of the world since the early 1970s. The report also presents latest information concerning governments’ views and ...
- World Income Inequality Database has been updated
- World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004
- The new WIID2 beta database consists of: a checked and corrected WIID1 a new update of the Deininger & Squire database from the World Bank, new estimates from the Luxembourg Income Study and Transm...
- Bank tells countries to keep bilateral trade agreements open so as not to divert trade or cause adverse market distortions
- Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2005
- The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of agreements in force surpasses 200 and has risen eight-fold in two decades. Today as much as 40 percent of global trade t...
- Over one hundred thousand excess civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
- L. Roberts; R. Lafta; R. Garfield; J. Khudhairi; G. Burnham / The Lancet, 2004
- This survey compares civilian mortality rates Iraq during the period of before the invasion and compares this with the rates after the invasion. The authors estimate that 98,000 more deaths than expected happened after the invasion ou...
- Investigating alternative institutional and economic policies to promote pro-poor agricultural growth in Malawi
- H. Tchale; H. Lofgren; P. Wobst; J. Morrison; A. Dorward / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- This paper pulls together insights from related farm-household and CGE modelling for Malawi to suggest wider methodological and policy lessons for pro-poor policy analysis in poor agrarian economies. It summarises the farm-household a...
- Macro and micro dimensions of rural poverty and agriculture in Ethiopia
- D.K. Grover; A. Temesgen / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2004
- The findings from this study, conducted in Ethiopia, demonstrate ways in which farm income may be increased (or rural poverty may be reduced) through an optimal allocation of resources and appropriate choice of enterprise pattern. ...
- Trade liberalization and global economic integration needed for growth
- UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004
- The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) 2004 examines general and regional statistics on economic growth in Africa and concludes that while African countries have marked significant economic growth, they are far from meeting their Millenn...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Revista de Educação e Pesquisa em Contabilidade (RePEc)
- Open access journal on education and research in accounting.
- German Council for Social and Economic Data / Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
- The German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) is an independent body of empirical researchers from universities, colleges, and other independent research institutions as well as representatives of important data producers and service centres. Working papers series deal primarily with the organisation of Germany’s official statistical system, government agency research,...
- The Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
- Business school in the United States
- Gapminder
- Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. Gapminder is an operating foundation that provides sevices as defined by the board, s...
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
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