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The staple diet of Mongolian families, whether urban or rural, nomadic or sedentary, is still meat and dairy products today – the nourishing foodstuffs, which make up the meals and are socially valued. However, the diet has changed significantly throughout the country since the beginning of the 2000s. On the initiative of a public health policy promoting dietary diversification that was initiated in the 1990s, many families are gradually integrating starchy foodstuffs (filling) and vegetables (providing various nutritional properties) into their daily diet. However, these products take a too substantial share in a majority of households' budgets. This paper will elaborate on the activities of a family living in a small provincial village in eastern Mongolia, who cultivate a vegetable garden on the outskirts of the village, of which some products supply extended family members at the commune level as well as their small general grocery store in the village. After describing the family's production site and the products they grow, this note will draw the contours of the informal and formal circulation channels used for these products to shed light on the social and economic ties created, maintained and mobilized by the families for different purposes. As a matter of fact, this vegetable garden turns into a hub of economic and social mutual assistance whereby the vegetables grown and harvested are exchanged for goods and/or services.
Keywords: Agriculture, potager, alimentation, consommation, vente, entraide, réseaux, Mongolie, Agriculture, Vegetable Garden, Food, Consumption, Sale, Mutual Asistance, Networks, Mongolia
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At midnight on June 30, 1997, Hong Kong has been the site of an historic event: British sovereignty over the Crown Colony of Hong Kong has been transferred to the People's Republic of China. The author describes the financial importance of Hong Kong, as an international trading center and the economic and political challenges following the Joint Declaration of Britain and China in 1984. Farewell Hong Kong, welcome Xiangtang, the new Chinese name of the Special Administrative Region, governed under a high degree of autonomy by the policy of "one country, two systems". A large place is allowed to the Hong Kong insurance industry, its P&C and Life insurance operations and its Asian important market.
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Economic growth in most leading industrialized nations is quite strong. The surprising burst of growth we saw in most OECD countries in 1988 led lo a small acceleration in inflation and a round of interest rate increases. However, slower growth is expected over the next 12 months. Inflation will remain modest and interest rates will probably decline.
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