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  Dualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997

  In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns to labour in the informal sector is another specific characteristic of labour market dualism in LDCs.
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  Social exclusion and Africa south of the Sahara: A review of the literature

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1994

  Review for sub-Saharan Africa, examines the English-language literature and focuses on four important dimensions of exclusion: (i) exclusion from agricultural land; (ii) exclusion from agricultural livelihood; (iii) exclusion from formal and informal employment; (iv) exclusion from organization and representation.Paper is organized in six sections.
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  DFID White Paper on International Development: articles from Journal of International Development

  Journal of International Development, 1998

  Series of articles from issue 10(2) of the journal covering the UK White Paper. Including: British aid and the White Paper on International Development: dressing a wolf in sheep’s clothing in the emperor’s new clothes? Howard White Eliminating world poverty: a challenge for the 21st century.
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  Habari ya maendeleo ya Tanzania - 28. A bibliography on recent articles on Tanzanian development studies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  Regularly published index to journal articles on Tanzania
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  The New 'Knowers' of West Africa. Muslims, Education and Social Change. A commentated bibliography.

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Bibliography presents summaries of and comments on eight different texts, each providing important contributions to the subject of Muslims, education and social change in West Africa.
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  Inequality and the Emergence of Non-farm Employment in Rwanda

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1997

  Examines the structure of income inequality among farm households in Rwanda. Specifically, it focuses on inequalities rooted in the distribution of and holdings and on the attendant polarization of relatively large landholders who tend to hire agricultural wage labor, on the one hand, and near-landless householders who provide this wage labor, on the other.
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  Fighting an Uphill Battle: Population Pressure and Declining Land Productivity in Rwanda.

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1996

  Report draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment: demographically-induced change in the structure of landholding: farm holdings generally become smaller as an ever-increasing number of households enter the agricultural work force and seek to derive their livelihood from th
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  Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1998

  The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related.
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  Productivity Improvement and Labour Relations in the Tea Industry in South Asia

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1996

  Examines recent experience in productivity improvement schemes in South Asia tea plantations, with particular attention to labour productivity.Recalls the importance of tea production in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, in terms of employment and foreign exchange earnings. Detailed information is provided on the cost account of tea production. Tea is a labour-intensive industry.
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  Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999

  Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.

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