Social partnership is usually concerned with areas of economic and social policy and might be based on a binding agreement or declaration of intent. ... Social Partnership does not necessarily require an institutional setting and can be described as a mode of policy making characterized by actively seeking compromise (Boyd, 2002). ... These burdens included unemployment, fiscal deficits, declining foreign exchange and the widening external deficit between the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Social partnership became the backbone of Irish economic policy (Government of Ireland, 1987). ...

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(Adams .D 1988) Bias of the policy environment against the Non-Farm Rural Sector. In most developing countries, the generally small-scale non-farm sector in rural areas faces a general policy environment that is biased against it. ... Ignorance about institutional support- Projects, instead of policies, has been the primary tools to encourage development of rural small-scale enterprise. The biggest problem with such support is the ignorance of people about such policies. ... It is thus difficult to provide broad policy prescriptions for promoting the non-farm employment as a whole, or even ...

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