In general terms, the marked improvement in Pakistan's GDP over the last four years has been achieved by decreasing the role of the Government in the country's economy and promoting openness. Pakistan has initiated limited market economy reforms leading to ......

PEKKA SEPPALA, Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania: anthropological perspectives on village economics. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 243 pp., SEK 220.00, ISBN 91 7106 427 3. Pekka Seppala's book is a new contribution in rural development work that takes an ......

Byline: EDU H. LOPEZ The state-owned Peoples Credit and Finance Corp. (PCFC) has secured a R200-million loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to finance its livelihood projects in the country. The loan is part of the DBPs ......

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) The United Nations food agency in Cambodia said Thursday it is investigating a $1.2-million fraud in its program here which has resulted in a suspension of new projects in the kingdom. The World Food Program (WFP) ......

Resumen Cada vez hay mayor consenso respecto a que el ingreso no agropecuario representa una fuente importante para el sostenimiento del hogar en zonas rurales, pues los recursos provenientes de la producción agrícola son insuficientes. Cabe preguntarse en qué medida ......

The Reconstruction of Palestine: Urban and Rural Development, edited by A. B. Zahlan. London and New York: Keagan Paul International, 1997. $34, hardcover. One issue has always been at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli struggle: land and land use. For ......

Management textbooks are filled with "time management plans" and adages that allot more time to planning than execution. The message is that if you plan well, your project will succeed. Sustainability and International Rural Development suggests that something has gone ......

Agrarian Reform Secretary Hernani Braganza pushed yesterday for the immediate implementation of the Northern Mindanao Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project (NMCIREMP) which is expected to benefit 36,000 poor rural households comprising of upland farmers, coastal dwellers, fisherfolks, indigenous people, ......

Knowledge of the Land: Land resources information and its use in rural development. By B. DALAL-CLAYTON and D. DENT Oxford: OUP, 2001, 428 pp. [pounds sterling]60.00 ISBN 0 19 829601 0 Although the intended audience for this book is not ......

BUTUAN CITY (PNA) Caragas poorest villages received yesterday R1.1 billion assistance from United Nations through the implementation of the Northern Community Initiatives and Resource Management Project (NCIREMP). A memorandum of agreements for the project was signed yesterday between the United ......

9264023887 Coherence of agricultural and rural development policies. OECD 2006 415 pages $75.00 Paperback The development dimension HD1405 Twenty-five contributions from government representatives and other specialists review the role of agricultural......

9780754640240 Governing rural development; discourses and practices of self-help in Australian rural policy. Cheshire, Lynda. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 173 pages $99.95 Hardcover Perspectives on rural policy and planning HN850 ......

Georgia is one of the fastest growing states in the nation. Between 1990 and 2000, Georgia added 1.7 million people, about 60 percent of whom moved from outside the state (Housing and Demographics Research Center, 2001). Most of the population ......

Goverde, H., de Haan, H., & Baylina, M. (eds) 2004, Power and gender in European rural development. Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire. ISBN 0-7546-4020-5 pp. 198 [pounds sterling]49.95 RRP cloth. This book is the seventh in a series of edited publications on ......