Institutional Aspects of Agricultural Development Policy

Institutional Aspects of Systems Development

This paper reports on research into how a systems development methodology (SDM) operates as an institution: specifically – an institutional carrier in the process of systems development. The case study develops the argument that institutional structures (such as authority, norms, symbolic values, and routine ways of doing things) embedded within the methodology are active forces in the systems ...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Tegemeo Institute for Agricultural Development and Policy

BACKGROUND: The starting point for the design of effective programs to mitigate the impacts of AIDSrelated adult mortality is accurate information on how households are affected by, and respond to, premature death. This note presents key findings from the study, Measuring the Effects of Prime-Age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya. The full report is downloadable from the web address abov...

Entrepreneurship and China: History of Policy Reforms and Institutional Development

Institutional Development Charles E. Eesley 7-10-2009 "The storm center of the world has shifted . . . to China, whoever understands that mighty Empire . . . has a key to world politics for the next five hundred years." --U.S. Secretary of State John Hay, 1899 China is like a sleeping giant. And when she awakes, she shall astonish the world. --Napoleon Bonaparte, 1803 One of the greatest untold...

Socio-economic Impacts of Investment Development Policy on the Agricultural Sector

Investment in the agricultural sector is important because this sector greatly affects the realms of providing food independence and security, employment, sustainable development, and environmental preservation. So, this study investigated the socio-economic impacts (direct and indirect effects) of the investment development policy on the agricultural sector and its sub-sectors in Iran in 2011 ...