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Policy options of agricultural biotechnology R&D in Sub-Saharan Africa: key issues and aspects

Yawson, Robert M.; Yawson, Ivy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper reviews the status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the potential economic … benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa and the effect biotechnology policies may have on growth, production and poverty reduction. The … extent to which agricultural biotechnology will compound or mitigate the constraints faced by smallholders …

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A stakeholder approach to investigating public perception and attitudes towards agricultural biotechnology in Ghana

Yawson, Robert M.; Quaye, Wilhemina; Williams, Irene E.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A stakeholder survey was conducted in Ghana to assess the level of public perceptions and acceptance of agricultural biotechnologies. A total of 100 respondents drawn from academia, Non-governmental organizations, business community, government and other stakeholders were interviewed on their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372591

Governing Knowledge for Development: Knowledge Clusters in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

Ariff, Syamimi; Hans-Dieter, Evers; Anthony Banyouko, Ngah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

With the dwindling of natural resources, like oil and gas, even resource-rich countries like Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia have to re-adjust their development strategies. Governing knowledge for development (K4D) is seen as a way out of the dilemma of reduced revenues from natural resources....

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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A ligação ferroviária do Porto de Sines como elemento estruturante de desenvolvimento regional

Moreira, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Resumo A construção de uma Linha de Transporte de Mercadorias (LTM), de Sines a Espanha, vem deitar achas na fogueira da confusão que reina acerca desta problemática. Confusão não só porque a calendarização para 2015 remete qualquer decisão efetiva para um horizonte politicamente...

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Spillover Effects of Homicides across Mexican Municipalities: A Spatial Regime Model Approach

Flores, Miguel; Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates spatial diffusion patterns of high levels of violence across Mexican municipalities to nearby locations while also exploring the possible effect of increasing law enforcement resources in some regions of the country. Our approach consists of providing a framework based on...

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Regional Development for a Disastrous Country

Brata, Aloysius Gunadi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social and economic factors on the economic loss and number of victims of natural disaster occurring in Indonesia using a pooled data from 2004 to 2008 of all provinces. This study found income as measured by GDRP per capita have...

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Italy and development policies from the golden age to the current crisis: the role of the “nuovo meridionalismo”

Lepore, Amedeo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The first aim of this paper on “L’Italia e le politiche di sviluppo dalla golden age alla crisi attuale: il ruolo del “nuovo meridionalismo” (Italy and its development policies from the golden age to the current crisis: the role of “nuovo meridionalismo”)” is to examine the state...

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The development of the brazilian amazon region and greenhouse gases emission: a dilemma to be faced!

Imori, Denise; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; David, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The purpose of this work is to verify the existence of possible tradeoffs between policies direct to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) with the ones direct to foster the development of the Brazilian Amazon Region, which is one of the poorest in the country. In order to achieve this...

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The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We develop hypothetical policy scenarios in this part of the paper which are simulated using a product-by-industry economic-ecological model to investigate their impacts on water and other ecological commodities. Results are expected to contribute to the establishment of alternative policy...

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