Peasantry

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants may hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.In a colloquial sense, "peasant" often has a pejorative meaning that is therefore seen as insulting and controversial in some circles, even when referring to farm laborers in the developing world. …

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World Bank Group · 18 April 2024 English

This module of the Public Expenditure Review (PER) sought to identify options for an effective and sustainable fiscal adjustment by considering key macroeconomic variables, fiscal policy priorities, spending trends, and …

70 percent of the population still relies on peasantry agriculture, and the bulk of those who have shifted


UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 15 April 2024 English

As the world races towards 2025, the midpoint of the last decade of SDG action, the need for swift identification of actionable strategies becomes an imperative for policymakers. With a …

(1996). Incentives and Income in the Ethiopian Peasantry: Agricultural Development in Tigray. Oxford University


World Bank Group · 7 March 2024 English

Additionally, it recognizes in “The Colombian peasantry as an actor of change” that the consolidation


V-Dem: Varieties of Democracy Institute · 6 March 2024

V-Dem Democracy Indices – Section 2.1 V-Dem High-Level Democracy Indices – Section 2.2 V-Dem Mid-Level Indices: Components of the Democracy Indices Subcomponents of the V-Dem High-Level Democracy Indices. [...] – …

be Estates of Nobility, Clergy, Burghers and Peasantry, where the Estates of Nobility and Clergy are the "upper" chamber, those of the Burghers and Peasantry into the "lower" chamber. Scale: Nominal Answer-type:


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 4 March 2024 English

Economists turned classical word-based political economy into a mathematical discipline Today’s economists rarely consult Adam Smith’s 1776 The Wealth of Nations, however celebrated it is for revealing the workings of …

Quesnay argued that high taxes on France’s peasantry were stifling the economy because they reduced


MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 29 February 2024 English

Indeed, the establishment of Israel, that State’s conduct and the response of the Peace Settlement in Eastern Europe at the end of the First World Arab world and the Palestinians, …

their own future. other societies whereby rural peasantry becomes a ’township' proletariat. Few international northern Palestine was years, on which the local peasantry held customary tenure. City part of the sanjak like that of neighbouring areas, is composed of peasantry more vulnerable to eviction. At a social level century. There are also small Shi'i and Druze peasantry. Not all the purchasers were either Palestinian an nor saw anything wrong in moving the native peasantry aside.20 In assurance it had made previously regarding


ÖFSE: Austrian Foundation for Development Research · 21 February 2024 German

Ultimately, the thesis concludes by reflecting on the overall failure to achieve industrialization in Ethiopia, the vulnerabilities of developmentalism in the face of persistent internal and exter- nal constraints, and …

rilla movement and considered the impoverished peasantry its main constituency (Clapham 2018: 1153). The


World Bank Group · 1 February 2024 English

90% of the working population in the region of peasantry character. The region is one of the big four


CITP: Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy · 30 January 2024 English

As a centre of excellence for innovative research on trade policy and its inclusiveness, we aim to equip the UK with the capability to formulate and implement a trade policy …

Tilton, T. A. (1975), Nazism, Neo-Nazism, and the Peasantry, number 31, Bloomington: Indiana University Press


Cato Institute · 20 January 2024 English

A century ago, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who kept his underground nom de guerre, Lenin, had achieved all that a revolutionary could wish. After his Bolshevik Party seized power he was …

aristocracy which presided over an impoverished peasantry and rising middle class. His wife, a German princess


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