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By applying a unified framework, this book examines the impact of
land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource
management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse
historical contexts. These land tenure reforms include
Land-to-the-tiller policies, Market assisted land redistribution
reforms, Tenure security enhancing low-cost reforms, Forest tenure
reforms and the Needed future reforms related to the recent sharp
increase in demand for agricultural land in Africa. The
Land-to-the-tiller reforms did not produce the intended impacts but
rather enhanced tenure insecurity, undermined the efficiency of
land rental markets and access to land for land-poor households.
Market-assisted land redistribution reforms face many design and
political challenges and have in many cases not been scaled up in a
good way. Low-cost tenure security enhancing reforms have recently
been scaled up in a number of countries with positive initial
impacts. Individual ownership of forestland is preferred in some
contexts while communal tenure manages forest resources effectively
in other contexts.
This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial
development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments
conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Tanzania. We
focus on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in industrial clusters,
because clusters consisting of MSEs are ubiquitous and have high
potential to grow.
Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development
has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few
decades. The authors have conducted comparative case studies
between Chinese and Japanese industries.
'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the
total economic system is probably the most important agenda for
economists geared towards the reduction of poverty in developing
economies'. - Professor Yujiro Hayami This volume brings together
leading scholars from all around the world to examine and extend
Professor Hayami's development model of 'community, market and
state', and to pay tribute to his invaluable contribution to
economics. The authors provide new empirical analysis with a clear
focus on the role of the community in economic development, and its
relations with agricultural markets, industrialization and the
government, using primary data from major countries in Asia and
Africa. This book is indispensable reading for all interested in
development economics, government and market studies and
international development studies.
By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and
implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the
Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries,
this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy
and social change in a domestic, regional and global context.
This book is a translation of an important Japanese work on
electronic ceramics and includes much experimental data. It will be
of great interest to ceramicists and electronic engineers working
with ceramic materials interested in an overview of recent Japanese
research in this rapidly developing field.
This book examines how to promote industrial development in
low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the
evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the
effect of the "China shock," and the role of industrial policies
focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the
upgrading of clusters.
This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial
development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments
conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Tanzania. We
focus on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in industrial clusters,
because clusters consisting of MSEs are ubiquitous and have high
potential to grow.
Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and
Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines
the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural
resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly
diverse historical contexts.
By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and
implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the
Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries,
this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy
and social change in a domestic, regional and global context.
This book examines how to promote industrial development in
low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the
evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the
effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies
focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the
upgrading of clusters.
'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the
total economic system is probably the most important agenda for
economists geared towards the reduction of poverty in developing
economies'. - Professor Yujiro Hayami This volume brings together
leading scholars from all around the world to examine and extend
Professor Hayami's development model of 'community, market and
state', and to pay tribute to his invaluable contribution to
economics. The authors provide new empirical analysis with a clear
focus on the role of the community in economic development, and its
relations with agricultural markets, industrialization and the
government, using primary data from major countries in Asia and
Africa. This book is indispensable reading for all interested in
development economics, government and market studies and
international development studies.
Shape memory materials are fascinating materials, with the potential for application as "smart materials" and also as new functional materials. This book presents a systematic and up-to-date account of all aspects of shape memory materials, from fundamentals to applications. Starting from the basic principles of the martensitic transformation, on which the shape memory effect and the superelasticity of alloys are based, the mechanisms of the two phenomena are clearly described, together with possible applications. The characteristics, fabrication techniques and thermomechanical treatment of various shape memory alloys are described in detail, with special emphasis on Ti-Ni and Ti-Ni-X (with X being Cu, Fe etc.) alloys. The book then describes various applications and design principles, for example in actuators, medical applications and as smart materials. The book contains chapters on shape memory ceramics and polymers as well as shape memory alloys, making the book a comprehensive account of the field.
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