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I have not had the privilege to meet you, but hope that such an opportunity will soon materialise. Dr. Philip Buys has forwarded your letter to me concerning the matter at hand. I have taken over from Dr. Buys as President of our aviation medical association, and as you have noted our name has changed for two reasons.. Firstly, we made the decision to fully dedicate our association’s efforts to aviation medical matters.. Secondly, we would like to extend our base to cover Southern Africa. SAAsMA has renewed its commitment to the furtherance of Aviation Medicine in Southern Africa, but with a new focus. We realise that our client is the Aviation fraternity primarily, and not SACAA (South African Civil Aviation Authority) or IAM (Institute for Aviation Medicine) as was perceived in the past. SACAA is the Legislator and IAM the Military authority. SAAsMA on the other hand needs to represent and audit the clinical entity which is outside the scope of practice of both SACAA and IAM. To achieve the goals forthcoming from this paradigm shift, SAAsMA is developing a process whereby the client has direct access to our website and our members have privileged access on our website to a forum for both parties to stimulate communication and interaction. The anticipated outcome is trust and confidence by the client/patient in the aviation clinician and SAAsMA. We are developing a CPD (continued professional development) component in conjunction with University of Pretoria which will be accessible on the same website, and this will be purely aviation medicine- minded with the aim to improve our member’s knowledge regarding SACAA’s protocols and procedures, as well as ICAO standards and other relevant international trends.

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Abstract: The de-collectivization of Vietnamese agriculture was a crucial step in the country’s transition to a market economy. The assignment of land-use rights had to be decentralized, and local cadres ostensibly had the power to capture this process. We assess the realized land allocation against explicit counter-factuals, including the allocation implied by a competitive market-based privatization. Depending on the region, we find that 95-99 % of maximum aggregate consumption was realized by a land allocation that generated lower inequality overall, with the poorest absolutely better off. We attribute this outcome to initial conditions at the time of reform and actions by the center to curtail the power of local elites.

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should be a low-inequality continent according to the Kuznets hypothesis (because African countries are poor and agriculture-based), and also because land (the main asset) is widely shared. Our hypothesis is that African inequality is politically determined. Yet in the empirical analysis, despite the introduction of several political variables, there is still an inequality-increasing “Africa effect ” linked to ethnic fractionalization. The politics however may work through ethnic fractionalization which provides an easy and secure basis for formation of political groups. Although this is a plausible explanation, it is not fully satisfactory and is criticized in the concluding section.

This paper provides a basic understanding of: (i) the concepts of Export Development and Export Diversification, (ii) what the theory says about Export Development and Diversification? and (iii) what empirical evidence shows on the links (correlates) between export diversification, exports growth, and overall

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