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Harnessing community capitals for livelihood enhancement: experiences from a livelihood program in rural Uganda.
...INTRODUCTION . Of all developing regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa faces the greatest challenge in ...Recent research indicates reductions in per capita agricultural productivity (Nkonya et al., 2004) with negative impacts on food ...
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Origins of the Clean Air Act: a new interpretation.
... for the Secretary to designate air quality control regions. The 1967 Act required the Secretary to designate "atmospheric ...Times, June 7, 2010, http://www.nytimes.eom/2010/06/08/ world/asia/08bhopal.html?_r=1& (last visited Feb. 14, 2015). This Act ...Agricultural losses alone total $500 million a year. Crops are stunted or ...
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Inequality: first, do no harm.
... across the Western countries, even though inequalities worldwide have been decreasing (Sala-i-Martin 2006). The Organization for ... that incomes tend to equalize in real terms across regions as factors of production move around. Part of this equalization ...Some of them push poor individuals down (through agricultural tariffs, zoning laws, the war on drugs), whereas others pull up ...
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Mapping the "big bang" of bird evolution.
... in a few bird groups and in the human brain's speech regions; the sex chromosomes of birds came to be; birds lost their teeth; ... than twice as many; and, in domesticated pet and agricultural bird species, there are eight times more of these genes. . What ... past 30 years by museums and other institutions around the world. Samples are sent as fingernail-sized chunks of frozen flesh ...
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Atrazine in Kentucky drinking water intermethod comparison of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analytical methods 507 and 508.1.
Introduction . Worldwide pesticide use has increased dramatically, with pesticide ...Today, it is one of the most frequently detected agricultural chemicals found in drinking water samples (Benotti et al., 2009). ... mean seasonal concentrations were calculated for all five regions of Kentucky, as well as the entire state. Changes in mean ...
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WHY NIGERIA NEEDS RESTRUCTURING NOW AND HOW IT CAN PEACEFULLY DO IT.
... a chief executive needs to be effective in the modern world. (2) Instead, the Nigerian literary giant, Wole Soyinka, labelled ... after independence, by the 1970s, crude oil replaced agricultural exports as mainstay of Nigeria's economy and major source of ..., (178) which created the Eastern, Western, and Northern Regions plus Lagos as federal capital territory. (179) Yet after more ...
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The financialization of commodity markets.
... number of commodities across the energy, metal, and agricultural sectors has led to a heated debate regarding whether speculation ... page 21, shows that while this trend intensified after the world financial crisis triggered by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers ...Aggregating such information from different countries or regions is challenging. The statistics from emerging economies are often ...
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U.S. Manufacturers And Foreign Steel And Aluminum Companies Face Catastrophic Duties And International Trade Risks Following Announcement Of Unprecedented Section 232 Tariffs On Steel And Aluminum
... A quota that would cut world-wide imports of steel by 37% from all countries. The President ... members who represent steel-producing states/regions to outright hostility from representatives who represent ... Agricultural Retaliation Fears: Senator Pat Roberts, who chairs the ...
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Frayed seams in the "patchwork quilt" of American federalism: an empirical analysis of invasive plant species regulation.
... these problematic species have been introduced to various regions under the auspices of "good intentions." (11) Consider, for ..., piecemeal, and focused primarily on protecting agricultural productivity. In 1912, Congress passed the first federal ...Perhaps in an ideal world, local governments would easily identify and swiftly prevent ...
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A short course on development in "post-conflict" Congo.
... to see how their education compares with the rest of the world's in both content and standards. But my own task was different. ... factions, and leaving people starving amid fertile agricultural land too dangerous to work. Today there is a kind of peace, ... the DRC try to "make up some time," inequality between regions is still waiting to be addressed. . The power of Western stories ...
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The new roar of the Inca.
... $1,970 in 2000 to an amazing $6,120 in 2015, according to World Bank data. . Along the way, the country posted annual growth ...During the past 20 years, an unprecedented boom in agricultural exports has flourished and the sector has become one of the main ... by bringing water from the mountains to the semi-arid regions of the coast. The countryside filled up with new crops where ...
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The war on drugs in Afghanistan: another failed experiment with interdiction.
..., Afghanistan produced more than three-quarters of the world's opium (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2002, 4, and ... in the late 1970s, decimated the country's legal agricultural trade network, leading many rural farmers to turn to farming ...DEA advisers were flown in from Colombia and other key regions to train local drug investigators and special forces (Risen 2007; ...
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Contextualizing the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and U.N. Millennium development goals.
... framework for development planning for countries around the world. To assist these countries, especially the developing nations, to ... deprivation theory holds some predictive value that the regions in the country that are relatively deprived of socio-economic and ... countries due to their detrimental effects on the agricultural sector and on the economy as a whole (Jeanty and Hitzhusen, ...
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Yeoman citizens: the country life association and the reinvention of democratic legitimacy.
.... With the end of World War I, farmers were in a position far worse than at the end of ... participate as citizens apart from the production of agricultural commodities, peasants' low social status created a class of ... the methods and points of view in great geographical regions;-the New England town meeting, with its ideal democracy; the ...
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Call them morenos: Blackness in Mexico and across the border as perceived by Mexican migrants.
... traditional emigration in Western Mexico, but also from regions in the South and North that are now contributing greater numbers ... New Spain to fulfill the labor needs of the agricultural, textile, and mining industries and to perform a vast array of ..., Mexicans seem to normalize and include Blacks in their world (e.g., "People call them morenos because in Mexico that is the ...
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The permitting of desalination facilities: a sustainability perspective.
... we can now deploy mobile desalination vehicles around the world for small-scale water emergencies (see photo on page 29). . ... also increase our understanding of the impacts from agricultural applications on groundwater contamination and stormwater runoff. ...This dynamic context prompts us to ask: Have coastal regions exhausted the alternatives to seawater consumption? That is, have ...
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The impact of Kenya African soldiers on the creation and evolution of the pioneer corps during the second world war.
...The chairman's communique identified Nyanza province as one of the regions that would be required to provide most of the labor for the proposed military labor corps because ...By 13 September, 1939, Fazan was informing Mr. C.O. Oates, the Senior Agricultural Officer in charge of Nyanza Province, that "I have strong hopes that formal recognition as a ...
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Personal and socio-economic determinants of agricultural information use by farmers in the Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) zones of Imo State, Nigeria.
...This shows that the percentage of Nigerians engaged in agriculture is more than the world average of 45.7% (Aina, 1995). The implication of this is that the productivity of this sub-sector ... it crucial for targeted efforts aimed at reducing the depth and severity of poverty in all regions of the country. . Formal education in this study was measured by the highest educational ...
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Exploration of unstructured narrative crime reports: an unsupervised neural network and point pattern analysis approach.
... a median family income of US$30,783 and dominated by agricultural products, such as sugar cane, rice, cotton, sweet potato, etc. ...In particular, a few light-gray regions at the left and right, as well at the bottom of the SOM are .... Goodchild, M. 2007. "Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography." GeoJournal 69:211-221. . Hagenauer, ...
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Government expenditures and equity of opportunity in China.
... and studies intergenerational mobility in non-agricultural employment in rural China. Golley and Kong (2013) use 2008 ... coefficient is significantly negative, suggesting that regions with higher government spending per capita have relatively small ... intergenerational mobility of education in China", China & World Economy, 21(2):15-37. . Gong, Honge, Andrew Leigh and Xin Meng ...
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Fukushima's shadow.
... surveys the response to Fukushima both in Japan and worldwide. It observes that rather than stopping what many thought was a ... Prefecture remains suspended, (32) and other agricultural products from the region continue to be received skeptically, ... pace, limited approval of nuclear projects in coastal regions to those that pass safety and environmental reviews, and no ...
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Emerging water shortages.
.... The shrinkage of Lake Chad isn't unique. The world is incurring a vast water deficit--one that is largely invisible, ...But in more arid regions, such as in the southwestern United States or the Middle East, ...Under the small but agriculturally rich Chenaran Plain in northeastern Iran, the water table was ...
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Meet the old sweatshops: same as the new.
..., which killed more than 1,100 people, reignited worldwide calls for new labor laws and increased government regulation in ... exodus was in part due to involuntary enclosure of agricultural lands, but also the rural folk, much like today's Third World ... women demanded greater pay and more competitors in other regions entered the textile market, immigrants eventually came to be the ...
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The Islamic spirit of capitalism: Moroccan Islam and its transferable cultural schemas and values.
... shurfa went to the length of warranting deliverance in the world to come. The shurfa were not one homogenous class. They were ... frequently where he is obliged to start the next agricultural cycle in debt. According to Halim (2000, 40), the exploitation of ...Whole regions and cities in Morocco are named after local marabouts. The ...
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When Genealogy Matters: Intercountry Adoption, International Human Rights, and Global Neoliberalism.
... Part then describes the globalization of adoption after World War II, including the paradox of "saving" children by sending ..., Congress amended the Social Security Act to allow agricultural and domestic workers to qualify for AFDC. This meant that black ... Central Asia, was asked how many healthy babies in those regions would be available for international adoption if money never ...