Research using greatly improved data has drawn some surprising conclusions about the relationship between inequality and growth. Contrary to the proposition that the early stages of growth exacerbate inequality...
Although tax systems of developing countries in an early stage of development tend to generate revenues from international trade transactions and production processes, this paper explores some issues for...
Semi-commercial farms that produce multiple crops make up a large part of the agricultural sector in developing countries. These farms or agricultural households combine two fundamental units of microeconomic...
This is the second in a series of papers describing analytical tools for examining agricultural pricing in East Africa. It documents a multi-market model for the analysis of agricultural pricing and marketing...
This paper describes a simple, multi-market model for the analysis of agricultural pricing in Malawi. The model was used to guide the Ministry of Agriculture's pricing recommendations for the 1984-85 season...
This paper compares alternative methods of analyzing price policy. The "single-market" approach uses the standard technique of consumer and producer surplus. In agriculture, where substitution possibilities...
In the past two years a large number of developing countries have found themselves unable to service their outstanding debt. This study reviews the evolution of the debt problem and analyses the policies...
The paper describes an analytical framework designed to address some of the important agricultural pricing issues that frequently arise in many African countries. The paper contains a description of producer...
The objective of this paper is two-fold. First, it clarifies the role of different assumptions made by previous authors in the determination of results regarding the neutrality or non-neutrality of social...
A theoretical model for extending the empirical applicability of the theory of the farm household to multicrop economies is presented. The model integrates the econometric and linear programming models...
Factors influencing the performance of net farm income in families who adopted the double cropping regime in Malaysia are analyzed in light of the Muda Irrigation Project, which supplies off-season water...
New developments in the theory of the farm household for nutrition and nutrition-oriented policies in the rural sector are evaluated. Some of the issues that such a model could elucidate are discussed;...