Incomes Policies

Incomes Policies
Author: Victor L. Urquidi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1989-11-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349203815

A compilation of papers given at a Conference of the International Economic Association analyze the world-wide experiences of incomes policy when, in the 1970s and early 1980s, this was seen as a crucial target for government.

Farm-nonfarm Linkages in Rural Sub-saharan Africa

Farm-nonfarm Linkages in Rural Sub-saharan Africa
Author: Steven Haggblade
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 73
Release: 1988
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN:

The links between agricultural growth and the rural nonfarm economy, known to be strong in Asia, are weaker in Africa but still important to the rural poor. Crucial for strengthening these links are policies and investments that (1) promote smallholders, (2) improve rural infrastructure, (3) encourage commerce and services, (4) foster the development of rural towns, and (5) explicitly recognize women as key actors in rural development.

Development

Development
Author: Stuart Corbridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415205436

Brings together more than one hundred articles dealing with the discipline of development in all its diversity. Key topics include the transformation of peasant economies, argibusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialization, workers, trade, aid and structural adjustment. A unique set in its comprehensiveness and diversity, it also considers four key challenges for development theory and practice relating to capabilities, ethics, sustainability and regulation.