Author: Federation of Kenya Employers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Manpower policy, Rural Languages : en Pages : 156
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Report emanating from the WEP on promotion of employment opportunities in rural areas of Kenya - examines social and economic data (incl. Income distribution, labour force, land tenure, etc.), covers technology, rural development strategy, macro-economic policies, etc., and includes an evaluation and conclusions. Bibliography pp. 136 and 137, references and statistical tables.
Author: Carl Liedholm Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 52
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Economic research pamphlet on employment in the rural industry sector in Africa, particularly in small scale industries - outlines the nonfarm occupational structure, and describes a theoretical model of an agricultural economy with nonagricultural activities, to be used as a research method to survey rural nonfarm employment in Sierra Leone. Bibliography pp. 34 to 38 and graphs.
Author: Iftikhar Ahmed Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000648761 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology, empirical and sectoral overviews, and country case studies, it draws together the literature to clarify the issues and the policies. The book begins with a conceptual overview and analyses the applicability of traditional theories of technological change and impact on gender based distributional questions. It proceeds to compare the African and Asian experience, examines the African situation regionally, and then as a set of four country case studies. The authors find that the imperfections of rural factor markets have contributed to women’s concentration in labour intensive sectors, marked by low productivity and low returns. Biases in the agrarian structure and the extension services are largely responsible for the Institutionalisation of discrimination against women. Finally, the volume identifies the social, economic, and technical constraints to the diffusion of technologies relevant to rural women’s tasks. In the final chapter the book’s analysis is further refined and extended, so that its conclusions to both theory and policy making are clearly brought out, and areas of future research identified. This book is an essential read for students and scholars of labour economics, women’s studies and economics in general.
Author: Derek Byerlee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 60
Book Description
Conference paper on the rural area labour market, migration and economic development in Africa - includes a bibliography pp. 40 to 47 and statistical tables. Conference held in BAD godesberg 1972 aug 26 to September 4.
Author: Federation of Kenya Employers
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Author: Carl Liedholm
Author: J. D. Rogers
Author: Iftikhar Ahmed
Author: Derek Byerlee
Author: International Labour Organisation (Geneva)
Author: Deborah Fahy Bryceson
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Author: International Labour Office