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Seaweed-based economic activities in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia

Hatta, A.M.; Dahoklory, G.M.B.K. - In: Naga 19 (1996) 2, pp. 18-21

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Awareness of Erosion, Flooding, and Building Development on Sullivan’s Island

Kern, Hannah - 2022

The following study is an in depth analysis to examine the awareness that high schoolers had on an important local environmental issue. Students of a local suburban high school were rated on their knowledge of erosion, flooding, and building development issues on Sullivan’s Island, a nearby...

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Women in African Agriculture : Integrating Women Into Value Chains to Build a Stronger Sector

Njiraini, Georgina Wambui; Ngigi, Marther W.; Baraké, … - 2018

Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa’s agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the labor, but facing significant obstacles, including unequal access to land, traditional division of labor, restrictions on mobility, unequal educational attainment, financial...

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Chapter 63 Development Aid and Agriculture

Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3253-3304). 2010

This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid) is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...

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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

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The great reversal

Chrimes, Tommy; Gootjes, Bram; Kose, M. Ayhan; Wheeler, … - 2024

The shock of the pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises has led to a reversal in development by exacerbating the challenges facing the most vulnerable 75 economies eligible for concessional loans and grants from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA). Over 2020-24, per...

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Natural resources, globalization and sustainable economic welfare : a panel ARDL approach

Fuinhas, José Alberto; Marques, António Cardoso; … - In: Estudios de economía aplicada : revista promovida por … 35 (2017) 3, pp. 653-671

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A case of inappropriately targeted vulnerability reduction initiatives in Andhra Pradesh, India?

Bosher, Lee - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) October, pp. 754-771

Purpose – The paper seeks to assess the influence and effectiveness of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in targeting and aiding “communities” to reduce their socio-economic vulnerability to infrequent large-scale and common everyday crises in coastal Andhra Pradesh....

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A case of inappropriately targeted vulnerability reduction initiatives in Andhra Pradesh, India?

Bosher, Lee - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) 10, pp. 754-771

Purpose – The paper seeks to assess the influence and effectiveness of non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) in targeting and aiding “communities” to reduce their socio‐economic vulnerability to infrequent large‐scale and common everyday crises in coastal Andhra Pradesh....

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Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk

Schumacher, Ingmar; Strobl, Eric - HAL - 2008

We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to … disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that face a low hazard of disasters are …, countries that face a high hazard of disasters are likely to experience first decreasing losses and then increasing ones with …

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