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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Food and agriculture markets, Labour and employment

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  Determinants of farm productivity in Africa (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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  A strategic approach to agricultural research program planning in Sub-Saharan Africa (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Pastoral labour and stock alienation in the sub humid and arid zones of West Africa

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1985

  The study of cattle pastoralism in general and pastoral labour in particular has concentrated on the arid and semi-arid zones, largely because the majority of cattle are located there.
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  Endogenous distortions in product and labor markets

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Product and labor market distortions move in the same direction in response to economic and social changes. Conditionality by foreign agencies should target product market distortions.
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  Growth and poverty in rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run.Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time.
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  Central America and the North American Free Trade Agreement /How Does the North American Free Trade Agreement Affect Central America? / Edward E.Leamer ... [et al.]

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  NAFTA seems like a very troubling agreement for Central America, especially in apparel and textiles. Losses from NAFTA depend on the economic size of Mexico. Central America can gain from NAFTA provided Mexico is "big enough" to satisfy completely U.S. import demands and Central America can redirect its products from U.S.
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  Rural nonfarm employment : a survey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although governments in some countries are implementing projects to support small scale and rural enterprises, more commonly the rural non farm sector operates in a policy environment that is biased against it.
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  Estimating the world at work

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What is the work status of the world's working age population?
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  Agricultural trade liberalization in the Uruguay Round : one step forward,one step back?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  The Uruguay Round appears to have made import protection in agriculture more transparent, but at the expense of significant liberalization in most countries.

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