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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.
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  Agricultural employment in Namibia: not the engine of wage employment growth

  Institute of Public Policy Research, Namibia, 2003

  This paper examines trends in national agricultural employment between 1991 and 2000 using official government statistics.
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  Agricultural intensification by smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon: from deforestation to sustainable land use

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Focusing on smallholders’ decision making, this report presents trade-offs among the key development objectives - environmental sustainability, economic growth, and poverty alleviation - affecting forest use in two settlements in the western Brazilian Amazon.
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  Agriculture, economic growth and poverty reduction

  Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2002

  Does agriculture have a role to play in economic growth and poverty reduction? This paper considers the role of agriculture in Kenya.
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  How important are market access issues for developing countries in the Doha agenda?

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2002

  The aim of this paper is that of going "back to basics", focusing on the importance of market access issues for developing countries in the WTO negotiations begun in Doha in 2001.The paper attempts to address the following questions:will developing countries gain from further reducing their applied rates in agriculture?Would be in their interest adding industrial goods among the sec
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  Implementation issues of the Agreement on Agriculture and its implications for developing countries

  Economic Research Foundation, India, 2001

  The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was an attempt to impose discipline on global agricultural trade by removing trade distortions resulting from unrestricted use of production and export subsidies and import barriers, both tariff and non-tariff.
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  Food crops or cash crops in the northern communal areas of Namibia: setting a framework for a research agenda

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2001

  Namibia is characterised by a dualistic agriculture sector with a strong commercial cash crop sector existing alongside a communal food crop sector, so which should be encouraged?
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  Pathways of poverty reduction, rural development and transmission mechanisms in the Philippines

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001

  This paper reviews the experience of Philippine rural development. It specifically examines the influence of government policies and institutional arrangements on rural welfare outcomes.
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  Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector in Swaziland: the demographic, social and economicimpact on subsistence agriculture, commercial agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and business

  TAT Health Services, Swaziland, 2002

  This study attempts to determine the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the private sector, obtain vital information on vulnerability of agriculture and the private sector to HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality; and identify strategies that can be implemented to prevent and control the epidemic. A key finding of the paper is that HIV/AIDS has not affected the profitability and product
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.

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