This paper was undertaken to estimate the contribution of the agriculture sector to the Tanzanian economy. The study focused on time series data collected for the period of thirty years (1981 2010) in Tanzania Mainland. However, the Mean Model was employed to estimate the contribution of agriculture sector to the Tanzanian economy. Moreover, the significant contribution of crops, livestock and ...

Although it is often argued that liberalization provides opportunities for growth and development in all over the world, there are divergent views about the effects of agricultural trade liberalization on growth and income distribution in developing countries. The developing countries’ main complaint in this regard is that trade distorting activities in agriculture by developed countries advers...

The implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India in 2006, has voiced concerns about the possible adverse impact on agriculture due to a shortage of casual labour in the agriculture sector and an unfavourable shift in cropping patterns. At the same time, MGNREGA is also associated with investments in rural infrastructure. The scheme especially f...

Introduction As successive strategy and policy papers have emphasized, agriculture is the most important economic sub-sector in Papua New Guinea. We are constantly told that agriculture provides the livelihood for about 85 per cent of the economically active population. The agriculture sector covers the activities of the private and public sector in cropping, animal husbandry, management of lan...

Why is Poultry Welfare in develoPing countries a concern? The poultry sector is one of the most rapidly growing livestock sectors worldwide: between 1961 and 2001 the number of poultry slaughtered annually increased by 621 percent. Although industrialized countries have much higher average per capita consumption of most poultry products, production in developing countries is increasing rapidly....

Informal Sector Is The Largest Employer Of Relatively Unskilled Workers When Skill Based Tecnological Changes In Production Of Manufactured Commodities And Services Have Always Fascilitated Income And Employment Growth For The Highly Skilled.Due To Globalisation The Scenario Among Women Has Been Changing As The Formal Sector Is Shrinking And Unable To Provide Employment Opportunities To Growing...

The problems of agriculture and poverty cannot be addressed without reducing the number of workers and their families dependent on land, thereby raising productivity. There are substantial rural-urban and male-female differences in rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, as well as informality of employment that exist within and across South Asian countries. Also, most...

Millions of East-Europeans started businesses during the transformational recession but, according to a wide-spread interpretation, many of them did so only temporarily and ‘unwillingly’ under the threat of unemployment. The paper looks at the relevance of the ‘disguised unemployment approach to entrepreneurship’ using regional data.It first examines how net flows into self-employment were affe...