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Achieving sustainable communities in a global economy : alternative private strategies and public policies / edited by Ralph D. Christy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore : World Scientific, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9812565671
  • 9789812565679
  • 9789812388094
  • 9812388095
  • 1281877085
  • 9781281877086
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Achieving sustainable communities in a global economy.DDC classification:
  • 338.13 22
LOC classification:
  • HD1415 .A234 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part One: The New Role of the Private Sector in Economic Development -- Engaging the global enterprise to promote economic development / Everett M. Ehrlich, Elliot Schwartz -- Linking globalization, economic growth and poverty : Impacts of agribusiness strategies on sub-Saharan Africa / Dave Weatherspoon, Joyce Cacho, Ralph Christy -- Part Two: Can Markets Matter for the Poor? -- Making markets work for the poor / Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Nithya Nagarajan -- Global markets and rural poverty : Do the rural poor gain or lose from globalization? / Clive Y. Thomas, Carlton G. Davis -- Markets, government and development : Structural adjustment programs in a global economy / Edward Mabaya, Ralph D. Christy -- Financial market integration and the fate of small and micro business lending in emerging economies / Mark Wenner -- Part Three: Achieving Sustainable Communities -- Essential forms of capital for achieving sustainable community development / Daniel V. Rainey [and others] -- Innovative community strategies in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management : Landcare in South Africa / Monique L. Salomon -- "Show me the money" : Asymmetric globalization and relative deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa / Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Amani McHugh, Jalamang Orcutt -- Globalization, agricultural development and rural community livelihoods / Philip McMichael.
Summary: This important book explores alternative strategies in agriculturaland rural development to address the impacts of globalizationprocesses on smallholder agriculturalists and marginalized ruralpeople. Its goal is twofold: (1) to identify and assess the keyprocesses by which globalization is affecting the smallholderagricultural and rural sectors; and (2) to identify and propose bothmicro- and macro-level policies and other strategies to deal with theproblems that arise. This volume presents writings of leading scholars and practitionersworking in the private and public sectors. Their work focuse.
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Part One: The New Role of the Private Sector in Economic Development -- Engaging the global enterprise to promote economic development / Everett M. Ehrlich, Elliot Schwartz -- Linking globalization, economic growth and poverty : Impacts of agribusiness strategies on sub-Saharan Africa / Dave Weatherspoon, Joyce Cacho, Ralph Christy -- Part Two: Can Markets Matter for the Poor? -- Making markets work for the poor / Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Nithya Nagarajan -- Global markets and rural poverty : Do the rural poor gain or lose from globalization? / Clive Y. Thomas, Carlton G. Davis -- Markets, government and development : Structural adjustment programs in a global economy / Edward Mabaya, Ralph D. Christy -- Financial market integration and the fate of small and micro business lending in emerging economies / Mark Wenner -- Part Three: Achieving Sustainable Communities -- Essential forms of capital for achieving sustainable community development / Daniel V. Rainey [and others] -- Innovative community strategies in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management : Landcare in South Africa / Monique L. Salomon -- "Show me the money" : Asymmetric globalization and relative deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa / Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Amani McHugh, Jalamang Orcutt -- Globalization, agricultural development and rural community livelihoods / Philip McMichael.

This important book explores alternative strategies in agriculturaland rural development to address the impacts of globalizationprocesses on smallholder agriculturalists and marginalized ruralpeople. Its goal is twofold: (1) to identify and assess the keyprocesses by which globalization is affecting the smallholderagricultural and rural sectors; and (2) to identify and propose bothmicro- and macro-level policies and other strategies to deal with theproblems that arise. This volume presents writings of leading scholars and practitionersworking in the private and public sectors. Their work focuse.

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