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“Land Grabbing” by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries: Risks ...
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Increased pressures on natural resources, water scarcity, export restrictions imposed by major producers when food prices were high, and growing distrust in the functioning of regional and global markets have pushed countries short in land and water to find alternative means of producing food. These land acquisitions have the potential to inject much needed investment into agriculture and rural areas in poor developing countries, but they also raise concerns about the impacts on poor local peopl ...
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Dynamics of Structural Transformation: An Empirical ...
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The paper develops a metric of structural transformation that can account for the production of new varieties of goods embodying advancements in technological know-how and design. The authors apply their measure to four-digit-level SITC trade data of China, Malaysia, and Ghana over the period 1962–2000 and discuss qualitatively the role of policies and institutions in spurring transformation in the three countries.
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Agricultural and Economic Development Strategies ...
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China and India can both gain tremendously by learning from each other, as both nations still face a long road ahead. The lessons learned from the experiences of China and India are also of relevance to other developing countries and the fight against global hunger and poverty.
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Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking Small Farmers, Packers, and ...
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Contract farming is seen by proponents as a way to raise small-farm income by delivering technology and market information to small farmers, incorporating them into remunerative new markets. Critics, however, see it as a strategy for agribusiness firms to pass production risk to farmers, taking advantage of an unequal bargaining relationship. There is also concern that contract farming will worsen rural income inequality by favoring larger farmers. This study examines these issues in Shandong Pr ...
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Resource Abundance and Regional Development in China
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Demand for natural resources has increased from the booming coastal economies. While the gap in economic development level between the coastal and inland regions has widened significantly. Using a panel data set at the provincial level, the authors show that Chinese provinces with abundant resources perform worse than their resource-poor counterparts in terms of per capita consumption growth. The windfall of natural resources has more to do with government consumption than household consumption. ...
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Race to the Top and Race to the Bottom: Tax Competition in Rural China
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Fiscal federalism has been argued to intensify regional competition and promote economic growth. This paper empirically assesses the patterns and extent of strategic tax competition between geographically neighboring governments in China. The authors find heterogeneous tax competition behaviors across regions. Under decentralized fiscal structure and centralized merit-based governance structure, local governments have strong incentives to compete with each other to attract mobile capital.
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The Evolution of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms: ...
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As private ownership was gradually recognized legally, Township-village enterprises (TVEs) lost their edge in competing with private firms. In the past two decades, industrial clusters with a concentration of private entrepreneurial firms coordinated by local governments have emerged rapidly in many areas. The structures of such firms as TVEs and the subsequent clustering modes of production are an outcome of interaction with other local and macro environments. As the environment changes, a firm ...
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Centroamérica en cifras
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Presenta una breve descripción de la realidad centroamericana abordando aspectos demográficos, sociales y económicos con indicadores actualizados de la subregión.
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Diseños evaluativos para proyectos de desarrollo con énfasis en lo social
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El seguimiento y la evaluación son tareas necesarias para asegurar el éxito de los proyectos. La preocupación de organismos nacionales e internacionales por reducir la pobreza en los países en desarrollo, apunta a la necesidad de identificar cuáles son las condiciones que se requieren para el funcionamiento básico de los sistemas de evaluación de estos proyectos. En la primera parte de este trabajo se examinan algunas de estas condiciones. Para posteriormente brindar ideas sobre otros proyect ...
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