Agriculture has a key role to play in reducing poverty and hunger in many developing countries. About 75% of the world's poor live in rural areas and most are dependent on agriculture and related activities in the rural economy. For this reason the benefits for developing countries’ farmers have been shown to be substantial if OECD member countries reformed their agricultural policies. The issu...

Food security and environmental sustainability are joint global challenges that require to be solved together. A complex policy framework is needed tackle this conundrum as coherence (PC) fundamental but extremely challenging. This analysis, after stressing the importance of solving jointly producing enough food feed a growing population while preserving climate environment, discusses some issu...

China’s growth plans include a carbon emission peak policy, which is restriction that indirectly impacts land use structure. In this study, we simulate different paths for achieving policy objectives, and explore the linkages between those change. The IPAT model was used to emissions generated from natural development scenario, an ideal retributive scenario in China 2020 2030. simulation result...

In this paper we empirically examine the effect of various banking policies on financial sector development. To this end, an econometric model in the context of Co-integrated VAR is employed. The results show that financial liberalization and reforms have a significant and positive effect on the banking sector development while inflation rate has a negative effect. Furthermore, the high GDP...

Recent years have seen considerable progress in integrating environmental concerns into the mainstream of development policy and planning. Economic instruments designed explicitly for environmental purposes may help to achieve cost-effective solutions, and generate public revenues. Macroeconomic and sectoral policies may impact heavily upon the environment, and there is much scope for policy re...

planning of cities in order to respond to considerable needs of urban population, is one of the most important concerns of urban managers and authorities. urban development plans which have been provided to respond to these issues, have different objectives and characteristics. hence different plans are developed to plan and organize cities. most of these plans are being prepared without consid...

This paper examines the role played by socioeconomic and spatial planning in the development of China’s first special economic zone (SEZ), Shenzhen. More specifically, it analyzes the impacts of socioeconomic fiveand ten-year plans and Master Layout Plans in Shenzhen’s metamorphosis from an industry-based SEZ relying on domestic investment (early 1980s) to a modern metropolis sustained by an ex...

introduction so far, many evaluation methodologies for assessing urban plans have been introduced, but comprehensive and systematic evaluation methodologies up to now have received little attention. in recent years the plan - process - results (ppr) approach as a comprehensive and systematic evaluation methodology based on the policy- plan/programme-implementation-process(ppip) methodology has ...

Measuring development, growth and welfare is an important issue in normative and positive economics.The issue is more critical in developing economies where a good statistical indicator of income, livingstandard or poverty is crucial for decision-makers in corporate, government, non-government andinternational organizations in their for-profit or non-profit plans to promote business and trade, ...