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  Agricultural markets in Benin and Malawi: operation and performance of traders

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002

  Based on original trader surveys, this paper examines how agricultural traders operate in two sub-Saharan African countries, Benin and Malawi. The study finds that the largest transaction costs incurred by traders are for search and transport. Search methods rely principally on personal visits by the trader himself or herself, which raises search costs.
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  Food security, poverty, and economic policy in the Middle East and North Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines household and country level food security issues in the MENA region looking broadly at economic, policy and environmental factors and assessing their impacts.It finds that in the MENA region household food insecurity is most severe in rural areas and concentrated within Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen and argues that the key to increased national and household-level food security is
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  Technical consultation on the integration of statistical and agricultural market information services. Proceedings of a CTA workshop

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  This technical consultation tackled issues around the sustainability and effectiveness of market information services (MIS) at the local, national and regional level in the ACP region.
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  Understanding, measuring and utilizing social capital: clarifying concepts and presenting a field application from India

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2003

  This paper develops a locally relevant scale of social capital to assess whether and how it mattered for development performance in 69 north Indian villages.
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  Child farm labor: the wealth paradox

  Economics department, University of Bristol, 2003

  This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households.The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by their families.
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  Land lease markets and agricultural efficiency: theory and evidence from Ethiopia

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2000

  This paper develops a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs, risk pooling motives and non-tradable productive inputs.
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  Significance of rural non farm sector in enterprise development

  Eldis Document Store, 2001

  This paper argues that the Indian government could be more actively involved in creating the necessary environment for effective public-private partnerships.
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  Competition policy for Namibia: promoting fair competition and economic development

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2003

  Competition policy is increasingly recognized as important for improving market performance and promoting economic growth, and is one of the new issues of focus of the World Trade Organization. Reflecting these trends, Namibia is developing a national competition policy.
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  Fighting chronic poverty with social inclusion and establishing rights at work: reconstructing the livelihood of the Kamaiya ex bonded labourers of western Nepal

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper argues that the chroncially poor require support that is far more than economic in nature. It examines the nature of a bonded labour relationship between the 'Kamaiyas' and high caste migrants in the Western Plains of Nepal.
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  Land reform for poverty redcution? social exclusion and farm workers in Zimbabwe

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper represents a provisional attempt to assess whether Zimbabwe’s land reform coherently addresses the issue of poverty reduction. It examines the short-term outcome(s) of the reform programme in relation to its initial objectives. More specifically, it examines its impact on farm-workers.

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