Contributed by Vivek Vyas PRM-23100 Some major problems that confront Rural Non-farm Employment are as follows Changes in consumer preferences - The problems of low demand and excessive competition are the major problems that rural non-farm employment faces. They appear to be caused by a lack of ability to identify and connect to more distant markets, plus trouble getting the design, quality, and delivery up to standards demanded by consumers. The repercussions -It can therefore be expected that there would be a tendency for rural-based manufacture of basic consumption goods to decline...

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In this chapter of Exploring Post-development, Ziai narrows down the criticisms shared by most critics of post-development into an uncritical stance towards local communities and cultural tradition, rejection of modernity and its positive advances, concealment or ignorance of oppression legitimized as cultural tradition, having the same authoritarian notions as development, and lack of legitimate alternatives. ... Among these false perceptions include the view that the people of Lesotho have not had modern conveniences of schools, hospitals and roads even after independence and they have migr...

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More than 1,900 people have died from Ebola in the four affected west African countries, but many more will suffer the economic consequences. The tiny post-conflict country has been growing at upwards of 8% over the last couple of years, but won't expect anything like that kind of luck now. Finance minister Amara Konneh says that's mostly because of damage done to mining, agriculture and service industries, as investors evacuate foreign workers, borders close, and international flights are suspended. Breadbasket regions are under quarantine, making agricultural trade impossible. Sime...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing econ...

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