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New technologies and the global race for knowledge
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.DocumentBiotechnology and the changing public / private sector balance: developments in rice and cocoa
OECD Development Centre, 1992This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops: rice and cocoa.DocumentStructural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane
OECD Development Centre, 1992Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.DocumentLabour market aspects of state enterprise reform in Viet Nam
OECD Development Centre, 1996State-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring has proceeded more rapidly in Viet Nam than, for example, in China and India. The government tightened the budget constraints facing SOEs virtually simultaneously with price liberalisation.DocumentAnalysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.DocumentThe Political Feasibility of Adjustment
OECD Development Centre, 1996The political dimension of adjustment was a problem to which relatively little attention was paid until the beginning of the 1990s. Analysts had, of course, been building and testing politico-economic models for over 20 years, but these concerned the developed countries, where the political context is very different.DocumentEmployment Creation and Development Strategy
OECD Development Centre, 1993Developing countries will account for almost all the increase in the world's labour force over the next 25 years; most countries, especially in Africa, will experience very rapid labour force growth. Labour-intensive development has been spectacularly successful in some countries and others have begun to emulate them.DocumentStructural adjustment and Moroccan agriculture: an assessment of the reforms in the sugar and cereal sectors
OECD Development Centre, 1992This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.DocumentCash crop and foodgrain productivity in Senegal : historical view, new survey, evidence, and policy implications
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996This research report provides an in-depth understanding of many aspects of Senegalese agricultural policy, its historical impact, and more recent farmer responses to government attempts to recent farmer responses to government attempts to stimulate growth in the agricultural sector.DocumentComparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in production and trade via optimal resource allocation.Pages