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  Poverty in Sri-Lanka: issues and options

  Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka, 2007

  This paper discusses the methodology that is being used by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) in computing Official Poverty Line (OPL).. It also gives the definitions of various measures used in measuring poverty for researchers, planners and policy makers who maintain an interest in the poverty situation in Sri-Lanka.
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  Urban agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Palestine

  Eldis Document Store, 2006

  Gaza is characterised by a rapid increase of population and expansion of cities and refugee camps. Large-scale, export-oriented agricultural production has reached its limits of land-use availability and, at the same time, is confronted with the socio-economic demands related to food insecurity and the need for income generation.
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  Migration and home gardens in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India

  Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 2005

  Based on household surveys conducted in 37 villages in northeast India, this paper compares home garden productivity and economic return among residents and immigrants of different ethnic groups. It explores the hypothesis that residents had an advantage over immigrants in maximising gains from home gardens resources.
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  Mobilising smallholder labour in oil palm production: results of the mobile card trial, Hoskins, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

  Curtin University of Technology, Research Unit for the Study of Societies in Change, 2004

  Under-harvesting in the smallholder oil palm sector leads to substantial production losses amongst outgrowers. At Hoskins in Papua New Guinea losses were estimated at around 25% of production with the main causes related to a shortage of labour supply.This paper reviews a payment trial at Hoskins that was designed to increase the supply of labour and so raise productivity.
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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  Off-farm employment, factor market development and input use in farm production: a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production (especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity).The paper identifes four household groups which at group level show large differences in terms of household size, number of labourers
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  Global employment trends: brief 2005

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This Brief focuses on increasing employment and poverty alleviation, and improving the conditions of work in the global economy. The paper reviews the labour market trends of 2004 and identifies and addresses six key labour market challenges for 2005.
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  Rural non-farm employment in India: access, income and poverty impact

  National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 2002

  This paper attempts to assess the contribution of non-farm incomes to the total incomes of different sectors of the Indian rural population; examines the factors associated with employment in the non-farm sector; and studies the direct impact of the sector on agricultural wage rates.
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  Informalisation of labour in South Africa’s fruit export industry

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  South Africa’s export fruit sector is buoyant but growers are under pressure from government legislation and standards imposed by international supermarket chains. The fruit industry is offering less permanent employment and using more temporary contract labour.
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  Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region.The authors find: that although traditional matrilineal inheritance rules deny landownership rights to women, women have increasingly acquired land through gifts and other means, thereby reducing the gender gap in

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