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  Rural wage employment: is there a premium for agriculture?

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014

  This paper investigates the determinants of rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). It estimates the wage equation for rural and non-rural workers controlling for structural, socioeconomic, and political factors.
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  Institute of Economic Growth, India (IEG)

  The Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) is an autonomous, multidisciplinary Centre for advanced research and training. IEG's research falls into the following broad themes:
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  A review of evidence, agreements, concepts and tools relating to participatory agricultural research

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  This is a rapid desk based study to provide an overview of evidence, agreements, concepts and tools relating to participatory agricultural research.
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  China’s industrialization: overview – implications for Africa’s industrialization

  Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2014

  Within a span of some six decades, especially the three decades after reform and opening up, China has been basically transformed from a traditional agricultural country to a modern industrialised state.
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  The Chinyanja Triangle in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa: status of, and prospects for, agriculture, natural resources management and rural development

  International Water Management Institute, 2014

  This paper, which focuses on the Chinyanja Triangle (CT), an area inside the Zambezi River Basin, characterises three distinct farming subsystems across rainfall gradients, namely maize-beans-fish, sorghum-millet-livestock and the livestock-dominated subsystem.
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  Urgent: a road map for agro-industrial development in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013

  The Philippines is at the cusp of a high and hopefully prolonged growth phase. However, the ability of this growth to deliver sustained creation of jobs and reduction of poverty has been questioned.
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  Improving basic services for the bottom forty percent - lessons from Ethiopia

  World Bank, 2014

  Ethiopia, like most developing countries, has opted to deliver services such as basic education, primary health care, agricultural extension advice, water, and rural roads through a highly decentralised system.
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  Cereal market dynamics: the Malian experience from the 1990s to present.

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012

  This paper assesses the role that cereal markets could play in contributing to poverty reduction in both urban areas through reductions in food prices and rural areas through increases in farm incomes, focusing particularly on the Malian experience.
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  A strategic agricultural sector and food security diagnostic for Burma

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2013

  Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Furthermore, given that two-thirds of the population works primarily in agriculture, low farm productivity translates into high rates of poverty and food insecurity.
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  Securing land rights in rural communities of Nigeria: policy approach to the problem of gender inequality

  2013

  In Africa, the pursuit of gender equality in inheritance rights remains one of the most difficult challenges due to its entrenched patriarchal characteristics. This is also the case in the rural communities of South-Eastern Nigeria.

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