1. Introduction As one of the basic drives of globalization, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is playing an active role in the economic development of NIEs. For instance, in China 2004, fixed assets investment, industry value added, and export of FDI firms accounts for 12%, 28%, and 57% of nation's total amount. 24 million employees are hired by FDI firms which accounts for 10% of all non-agricu...

UA-Magazine he use of municipal wastewater to fertilize ponds began in Kolkata in the thirty’s, and it is now perhaps the largest wastewater fed aquaculture system in the world (Nair, 1944; Jhingran, 1991). Kolkata is a metropolis of 14 million inhabitants. The Kolkata periurban area especially where wastewater fish farming is practiced supports the livelihood of a large number of people throug...

The Forest Service, the largest agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has traditionally used the expression "community stability" to describe its rural development policy. That has meant growing and harvesting trees following principles of "sustained yield" so that local industries (and the employment they generate) can be supported over long periods of time. In recent years, however, e...

Introduction The Indian textile industry is one the largest and oldest sectors in the country and among the most important in the economy in terms of output, investment and employment (E). The sector employs nearly 35 million people and after agriculture, is the second‐highest employer in the country. Its importance is underlined by the fact that it accounts for around 4 % of Gross Domestic Pro...

went out immediately after. He kept all he earned and was the envy of his fellows. In this unassuming way was started a system of training through employment out of our hands. It was, however, in Agriculture that daily licence had its main development before the Second World War and here it appears too, to have arisen somewhat casually out of a social contact with a neighbouring "gentleman farm...

Changes in national forest areas during 1990-2000 are contrasted with other variables to 12 illustrate correlations and provoke discussion about possible causes. Twenty-five 13 statistically-significant correlations (including rural population, life expectancy, GDP, 14 literacy, commerce, agriculture, poverty and inflation) are illustrated and a statistical 15 model suggests that good governanc...

Most of the statistics needed for national planning are derived from large scale sample surveys with households as reporting units both in the developed and developing countries. Examples of these surveys are Income and Expenditure, Employment, Food consumption and Nutrition, Agriculture, Health, Education, Establishment, etc. The required information on these topics is obtained from the select...

There are many factors that contribute to poverty and hunger in developing countries, including war, political instability, lack of infrastructure and poor economic conditions. We do not claim that the use of GM crops alone will eliminate the need for political, social or economic change, or that they will simply ‘feed the world’. We recognise that we are discussing only part of a much larger p...

This paper addresses the relationship between property regimes and land degradation outcomes, in the context of peasant agriculture. We consider explicitly whether private property provides for superior soil resource conservation, as compared to common property and open access. To assess this we implement optimization algorithms on a supercomputer to address resource decision-making of individu...

Rice provides the staple food for over 60% of the world’s population. Globally 80% of rice is grown by small farmers in low income and developing nations, and in India rice farming is a key source of employment for the 60% of Indian workers still dependent on agriculture for work. Yet rice production is also an important source of greenhouse gas emissions, for example responsible for between 3 ...