Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A Compendium of U.S.A. Grain Sector Support Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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U.S.A. Grain Sector Support Review
Author: Canada Grains CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
V1 Digest; v2 Compendium.
Working with the Grain
Author: Brian LevyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199363803
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the early 21st century. Working with the Grain draws on both innovative scholarship and Brian Levy's quarter century of experience at the World Bank to lay out an alternative-a practical, analytically grounded, "with-the-grain" approach to reducing poverty and addressing weaknesses in governance. Best practice prescriptions confuse the goals of development with the journey of getting from here to there. A strong rule of law, capable and accountable governments, and a flexible, level playing field business environment are indeed desirable end points. But the ability to describe well-governed states does not conjure them into existence. If the only available actions are all or nothing, then efforts at change will almost certainly fall short, leading to disillusion and despair. By contrast, this book takes as its point of departure the realities of a country's economy, polity and society, and directs attention towards the challenges of initiating and sustaining forward development momentum. The book: -- distinguishes among four broad groups of countries, according to whether polities are dominant or competitive, and whether institutions are personalized or impersonal -- identifies alternative options for governance and policy reform-top down options which endeavor to strengthen formal institutions, and options supporting the emergence of "islands of effectiveness" -- explores how to identify entry points for change where there is a good fit between divergent country contexts and alternative options for reform. Sometimes the binding constraint to forward movement can be institutional, making governance reform the priority; at other times, the priority can better be on inclusive growth. Taking the decade-or-so time horizon of practitioners, the aim is to nudge things along-seeking gains that initially may seem quite modest but sometimes can give rise to a cascading sequence of change for the better.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Review the Effects of the Drought on Government Supplies of Grain and the U.S. Livestock Industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed GrainsPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Review of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Crop Disaster Assistance and 1993 Crop Quality Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on General Farm CommoditiesPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Oceans of Grain
Author: Scott Reynolds NelsonPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541646452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa, on the Black Sea in Ukraine. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers’ rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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