The Investment Climate and Enterprise Performance in Rural Pakistan: Implications for Rural Non-farm Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction Mona Sur South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development Department World Bank msur@worldbank.org & Jian Zhang Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California-Davis jian@primal.ucdavis.edu Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, July 23-26
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State of the Economy and Prospects CHAPTER 1 While India's recent slowdown is partly rooted in external causes, domestic causes are also important. The strong post-financial-crisis stimulus led to stronger growth in 2009-10 and 2010-11. However, the boost to consumption, coupled with supplyside constraints, led to higher inflation. Monetary policy was tightened, even as external headwinds to growth increased. The consequent slowdown, especially in 2012-13, has been across the board, with
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Access to Finance for India’s Rural Poor September 6, 2004 FINANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT UNIT South Asia Region Document of the World Bank TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I. INTRODUCTION 2 India’s Rural Finance Landscape 4 What are the financial needs of the rural poor? 4 Rural finance service providers 5 II. ACCESS TO RURAL FINANCE IN INDIA: THE EVIDENCE 8 Supply Side Indicators of Access to Finance 8 Access to Rural Finance: Evidence from the
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a large number of Bengali people have depended for their livelihood on fishing and related occupations. Fishermen in rural Bangladesh usually live a community life in neighbourhoods or villages around the water bodies. They cooperate closely with one another not only in fishing, or in the cooperative utilisation of fishing grounds, but also in economic activities, such as marketing and purchasing, and in social life and family affairs. They have lived communally for many generations, creating in the
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distribution is part of a larger process called "distribution," which includes wholesale and retail marketing, as well the physical movement of products. Physical distribution activities have recently received increasing attention from business managers, including small business owners. This is due in large part to the fact that these functions often represent almost half of the total marketing costs of a product. In fact, research studies indicate that physical distribution costs nationally amount
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Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) A vehicle to usher in inclusive growth and bridge the digital divide January 2011 www.deloitte.com/in 2 Contents Message from Chairman, TRAI Message from President, ASSOCHAM Message from Secretary General, ASSOCHAM Message from Deloitte Objective & Methodology Executive Summary Introduction What is MVAS? What is Utility MVAS? Key categories in Utility MVAS A Framework for Utility MVAS Drivers for Utility MVAS Categories in focus Category 1 : M-Commerce
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Semester –I Thinking and Communication Skills (Practical) Accounting for Decision Making Philosophy for Management Economics for Managers Managerial Statistics Managerial Skills (Practical) Semester-II Financial Management Management Information System Marketing Human Resource Management Production And Operation Management Legal Aspects of Business Semester- III Summer Internship (8 weeks)(Practical) Entrepreneurship Strategic Management Business Analytics (Practical) Elective-1 Elective-2 Elective-3 Elective-4
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Section 17 Agriculture This section presents statistics on farms and farm operators; land use; farm income, expenditures, and debt; farm output, productivity, and marketings; foreign trade in agricultural products; specific crops; and livestock, poultry, and their products. The principal sources are the reports issued by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The information from the 2007 Census of
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Land is that part of the earth that is not covered by water (Fisher: 1987). It comprises of all naturally occurring resources whose supply is essentially fixed. Without land, man cannot survive: without access to it, man cannot labour. Land is important as all natural resources are fundamental to the production of all goods. Land as a factor of production is of immense importance because land is the original source of all material wealth. Moreover, the economic prosperity of a country is closely
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Prelude The Union Budget for 2012-13 (FY13) is to be presented in the Parliament on 16th March. As every year, the budget will be an event that would signal the direction set forth for the growth path of the economy. Global as well as the domestic investors would also be looking for signals. The attempt of the government to push
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