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Author: Robert Wade
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-11-28
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0429704682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how state and local institutions that manage water conveyance and drainage actually function. Thus a great deal is revealed about the relationships and power struggles that exist between government and the people and between central and local authorities.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9264748210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies spanning all six continents, including the 36 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 13 emerging economies.
Author: Tat Yan Kong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1136184066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the Korean economy combines an historical approach with a substantial treatment of the new economy. Its fresh analysis of the recent transition and systematic treatment of labour issues represent a significant contribution to the scholarship on the politics of development. It is an essential resource for students of comparative political economy and East Asian development.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9290927038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Saemaul Undong movement was a community-driven development program of the Republic of Korea in the 1970s. The movement contributed to improved community well-being in rural communities through agricultural production, household income, village life, communal empowerment and regeneration, and women's participation.This report examines the strengths and weaknesses of the movement along with contributing factors, including institutional arrangements, leadership influence, gender consideration, ideological guidance, and financing. It also reviews existing studies and government data on the movement, and presents excerpts from interviews with key persons engaged in the movement and useful lessons for implementing community-driven development initiatives in developing countries.
Author: Robert B. Morrow
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keijiro Otsuka
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-01-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9811331316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
Author: Christopher J. Barrow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1317885198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1988. There are many excellent texts on water supply and irrigation engineering, irrigation economics, agricultural development and the problems which often plague such efforts. Few syntheses of such writings have been made, despite a clear need for them from people interested in water resources and agricultural development: students of geography, economics, development studies and agricultural management, administrators, planners and aid agency staff. This book attempts to provide a broad interdisciplinary introduction for such people.
Author: U.s. Department of Agriculture
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-02-15
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781543136883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrecision agriculture (PA) and its suite of information technologies-such as soil and yield mapping using a global positioning system (GPS), GPS tractor guidance systems, and variable-rate input application-allow farm operators to fine-tune their production practices. Access to detailed, within-field information can decrease input costs and increase yields. USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey shows that these PA technologies were used on roughly 30 to 50 percent of U.S. corn and soybean acres in 2010-12. Previous studies suggest that use of PA is associated with higher profits under certain conditions, but aggregate estimates of these gains have not been available. In this report, a treatment-effects model is developed to estimate factors associated with PA technology adoption rates and the impacts of adoption on profits. Labor and machinery used in production and certain farm characteristics, like farm size, are associated with adoption as well as with two profit measures, net returns and operating profits. The impact of these PA technologies on profits for U.S. corn producers is positive, but small. Keywords: Crop production information technologies, precision agriculture, variablerate technology, soil tests, global positioning system maps, guidance systems.
Author: Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780415330954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Winstanley-Chesters
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014-11-12
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 0739187783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnvironmental and developmental matters have long proved key to North Korea’s “revolutionary” industrial and economic strategies. They have equally been important to Pyongyang’s diplomatic and geo-political efforts both during the Warsaw Pact period and in our contemporary era following the collapse of its supportive and collaborative partners. However, while environmental issues have been very important to North Korea, academic analysis and commentary addressing this field of governmental and institutional functionality has been almost entirely lacking. This book fills this analytical void. Taking a narrative view of developmental approach throughout the political and ideological history of North Korea, Winstanley-Chesters first considers its impact on its landscapes and topographies in general throughout the era of the Kim dynasty. Second, in light of recent academic analysis suggesting North Korea as a space of Charismatic politics, the book focuses on the specificity of individual developmental sectors and projects, such as those addressing forestry and hydrology, seeking to trace general trends into these more particular environmental fields.
