During the mid-1980s Vietnam experienced widespread hunger and malnutrition. This led to an economic reform process already before the transition in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (CIS). Vietnam embarked on a unique way of decollectivization which followed neither...

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Overall, the study investigated the impact of access to and adoption of extension services and agricultural technology in reducing poverty in Uganda. To meet this objective, the researcher analysed the relationship between poverty and access to agricultural extension services and adoption of...

This chapter is the final one (no. 12) in the report.

This study examines the effects of urban development pressure on agricultural land prices in Korea. It investigates the determinants of agricultural land prices, focusing particularly on urban planning variables on agricultural land use. Since agricultural land price is in general closely...

This paper investigates the recoveries following the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions on a state by state and regional basis, and examines why different states and regions performed differently over these two expansions. The general conclusion of the study is that, when measured by a six-year Okun...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of regional innovation on employ-ment and population growth in the U.S. Midwest. A measure of effective local innovation is created by fitting a first-order spatial autoregressive model to create a measure of regional innovation using...

This paper is aimed at discussing the role of institutions in explaining policy outcomes in rural development. After a discussion of the theoretical framework, we have proposed a model to understand and analysing why bad policies persist over time and what are the effects on policy institutions...

The paper analyses the impact of household attrition in the Northern Uganda Survey panel of 2004 and 2008. These surveys were designed to evaluate the performance of the first phase of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF). The first survey was conducted in 2004 when the region faced...

Las politicas de desarrollo rural de la UE se han encaminado, entre otras finalidades, a aumentar la participacion de las mujeres en el mercado de trabajo y fomentar su participacion en la promocion de proyectos en el mundo rural. Las mujeres fueron las promotoras de casi la mitad de lso...