A cluster approach to food industry management formation in the Republic of Kazakhstan
The object of discussion is the food industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the years of economic transformation and the strategy of its development based of the formation of a cluster. The cluster is supposed to include agriculture, food machine building, production of packing and the state system of standards, metrology and certification. The proper management of food industry can be provided through optimal relationship between state regulation, economic management and local control. On a national basis, the state regulation and the economic management should be directed at the formation of the cluster of food industry.
This article examines which public programmes and which socio-economic development indicators have had an impact on contraceptive practices and fertility in a selected group of villages in Comilla district of Bangladesh. It finds that equitable even-handed development may be a good contraceptive but is not a realistic alternative to family planning effort....This research undertaken in 1985 replicates a similar knowledge attitudes and practice (KAP) type study undertaken in these same villages some 20 years earlier in 1967/68....Thus the two studies provide a unique look at demographic behavioural characteristics when these agricultural development programmes were in an early stage and then 20 years later. (EXCERPT)