This has resulted in stunted growth of the rural no -farm sector. ... (Adams .D 1988) Bias of the policy environment against the Non-Farm Rural Sector. ... Thus the growth in Rural Non-Farm Employment in India has been much slower. ... (Non-Farm Employment, Gender, and Poverty in India. ... Insufficient attention paid to engines of growth, which provide indirect non-farm employm...
Only 15% of Kenya's total land area is sufficiently fertile to be farmed, and only 7% can be classified as first class land. ... As the desert encroaches from the north, pressure is mounting for Kenya to implement reforestation plans and to maximize productivity in existing farms. ... However, as the concept of wage employment was alien to them, they did not avail themselves for employment in the settlers' farms. ... That school's primary purpose was to promote evangelism but as education developed it became an instrument to produce skilled labour for the settlers' fa...
Typically men and boys were responsible for doing the heavy farm work and working with the large stock animals, while women and girls worked in the gardens and homes. ... This was the age in which the traditional U.S. family was born. ... One was the Family Wage Act. ... This meant there was an increased need for a dual income earning family so that families could earn more money to spend on things such as new cars, more toys, or exotic vacations. The typical family was willing to work more if it meant they could have more material things. ...
NICARAGUA HISTORY Nicaragua takes its name from Nicarao, chief of the indigenous tribe then living around present-day Lake Nicaragua. Although it is the largest republic in Central America, has a relatively tiny population of approximately 4.5 million people. Nicaragua is bound on the north by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. It is slightly larger than the U.S. state of New York with an area of 130,000 square kilometers. The capital city is Managua. ...
During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...
