Search Results - "Libération"

Explaining catch-up in human development: A political economy comparison of the Philippines and Viet Nam since 1986 by Baulch, Bob

“…By a sequenced combination of market liberalization, land reform, and public investments in health and education, plus large aid and foreign direct investment inflows, Viet Nam generated broad-based, sustained, and rapid economic growth. …”
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Key questions for decision-makers: Protection of plant varieties under the WTO agreement on trade-related aspects of the intellectual property rights. Decision tools by International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

“…These include, for example, liberalizing trade, conserving wetlands, conserving biodiversity and ensuring equitable benefit-sharing derived from its sustainable use, and mitigating the effects of, and ultimately halting, climate change. …”
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Steadying the ladder: China's agricultural and rural development engagement in Africa by Chen, Kevin Z., Hsu, Claire, Fan, Shenggen

“….– Having conducted a comparative review of China and Africa's distinct development paths and current policy contexts, the authors discuss China's development lessons for Africa South of the Sahara and policy recommendations for China-Africa engagement related to agricultural and rural development, openness and liberalization, evidence-based policymaking, pro-poor policies, institutions and capacity, rising inequality, and environmental degradation.– This paper rigorously integrates China's positive and negative development lessons for Africa in light of the most recent research on emerging domestic and international development strategies.…”
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How important is a regional free trade area for Southern Africa?: Potential impacts and structural constraints by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Diao, Xinshen, Bahta, Yonas

“…These results suggest that the region should be looking at regional policies and interventions beyond trade arrangements, such as those targeting investment, agricultural productivity, and diversification, to enhance benefits of regional trade liberalization.…”
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More or less ambition in the Doha Round? The development impact of recent proposal by Bouët, Antoine, Mevel, SImon, Orden, David

“…We compare those outcomes with the estimated effects of full global trade liberalization. The results for the two Doha scenarios demonstrate the high stakes of this negotiation given the positions of EU, US and the G‐20 coalition. …”
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Competitiveness of pig and poultry production in Vietnam: Outcome of policy analysis matrix by Akter, S., Jabbar, M.A., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…Unless targeted support is provided to small farms, they are likely to be pushed out of business in a more liberalized economic environment.…”
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Base genética de los cultivares de arroz de riego liberados en Venezuela by Acevedo, M.A., Torres Castro, Edgar Alonso, Moreno, O, Álvarez, R., Torres, O., Castrillo, W., Torrealba N., G.T., Reyes, E, Salazar, M., Navas, M

“…The genealogy of 19 varieties of irrigated rice, Oryza sativa L., liberated in Venezuela during the years 19782006, were analyzed with the objective to determine the number of ancestors present, also to estimate its relative genetic contribution. …”
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Analysis of production trends in the major root and tuber crops in Nigeria, 1961-2005 by Ojiako, I.A., Asumugha, G.N., Ezedinma, C.I., Uzokwe, Veronica N.E.

“…The implication is that the SAP liberalization policy and the introduction and dissemination of high-yielding and disease resistant crops' varieties impacted positively on output of roots and tubers in Nigeria. …”
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Pre-capitalist reproduction on the Nepal Tarai: semi-feudal agriculture in an era of globalisation by Sugden, Fraser

“…This article highlights the continued significance of pre-capitalist formations in shaping the trajectory of economic transition in peripheral regions, even in an era of neo-liberal globalisation. There is a tendency for Marxist scholars to assume the inevitable “dominance” of capitalism over older modes of production. …”
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Survival of Neozygites cf. floridana (Zygomycetes: entomophthorales) in mummified cassava green mites and the viability of its primary conidia by Oduor, G., Yaninek, John S., Geest, L. van der, Moraes , G.J. de

“…When stored at 4°C, the fungus sporulated from 90% of the mummies liberating an average of 186.9 primary conidia per mummy even after a storage period of 16 months, when the experiment was terminated. …”
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Integrating nature-based solutions for resilient watershed management a comparative study in urban and semi-urban watersheds of Panama and Honduras by Benegas Negri, Laura A, Ríos Ramírez, José Ney, Fino Rodríguez, Líber Ilyá, Mosquera Ballejos, Carlina Felicia, Ibáñez López, Ovidio

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Drops of knowledge : a case study of the private water market in Guayaquil, Ecuador by Biro, Josephine

“…In addition, it is possible to see a stronger influence of neo-liberal governmentality in the water market today than before due to this shift. …”

Integrated policies to improve the energy–water–food system nexus to achieve the SGDs by Bollino, Carlo Andrea, Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam, Babu, Suresh Chandra, Eiji, Yamaji, Galeotti, Marzio

“…The suggestion is to promote policies to (1) facilitate which determinants are best suited to enhance the convergence of policy process, such as economic diversification, subsidy removal, and liberalization through a multisectoral approach; and (2) support increasing electricity access using alternative sources of energies in remote rural areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America through integrated Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).…”
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When the cure is worse than the disease: Acaricide use, tick resistance, and systemic constraints in Uganda’s dairy sector by Kariuki, Sarah, Muteti, Francisca N., Vudriko, Patrick, Ariong, Richard M., Van Campenhout, Bjorn, Chamberlin, Jordan

“…This paper examines the systemic constraints that undermine effective, safe, and sustainable tick control in Uganda’s liberalized dairy system. Drawing on multiple complementary data sources—including household surveys, exit interviews, list experiments, and covert audit methods—we show that the de facto farmer-led model of tick control is characterized by failures in information, coordination challenges, imperfect input markets, and weak regulation. …”
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Driving agricultural transformation with the power of information and communication technology: The performance of Nigeria’s growth enhancement support scheme by Olomola, Aderibigbe

“…Nigeria liberalized input distribution and established the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS) in 2011 to deliver subsidized inputs to farmers as part of its Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA). …”
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Macro-micro feedback links of water management in South Africa: CGE analyses of selected policy regimes by Hassan, Rashid, Thurlow, James

“…The analyses reveal that implicit crop-level water quotas reduce the amount of irrigated land allocated to higher-value horticultural crops and create higher shadow rents for production of lower-value water-intensive field crops, such as sugarcane and fodder. Accordingly, liberalizing local water allocation within irrigation agriculture is found to work in favor of higher-value crops, and expand agricultural production and exports and farm employment. …”
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Out of the shadow of famine: Evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh by Ahmed, Raisuddin, Haggblade, Steven, Chowdhury, Tawfiq-e-Elahi

“…Improvements in agricultural science in the 1970s roughly doubled farm yields, while in the 1980s liberalization of irrigation restrictions, the lifting of import barriers to irrigation technology, and the privatization of fertilizer distribution rapidly increased rice cultivation. …”
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The dragon and the elephant: Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India by Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Dalafi, Sara

“…Despite similar trends in the reforms, the two countries have taken different reform paths; China started off with reforms in the agriculture sector and in rural areas, while India started by liberalizing and reforming the manufacturing sector. …”
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The dragon and the elephant: Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India by Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen

“…Thus far, agriculture-led growth in China has reduced poverty much faster than has India's experience of liberalizing and reforming the manufacturing sector. …”
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Income dynamics in Tamil Nadu, India from 1971 to 2003: changing roles of land and human capital by Kajisa, Kei, Palanichamy, N. Venkatesa

“…Further growth after the 1990s became possible due to the rapid nonfarm sector development that has been stimulated by the liberalization of Indian economy since 1991. In accordance with this change in income structure, the importance of physical and human capital has changed. …”
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