Community Development around the World: Practice, Theory, Research and Training. Edited by Hubert Campferns. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 481. NP. ISBN 0 8020 0903 4 and 7884 2 Cultural Perspectives on Development. Edited by Vincent Tucker. London and Portland,...

For sub-Saharan African countries with few evident opportunities to diversify export earnings away from primary commodities, tourism has emerged as an option to contribute to economic growth. This study uses input-output analysis to estimate the economic impact of tourism and assesses its...

This study examines the responsiveness of peasant farmers in Ethiopia to price and non-price factors. Quadratic production and restricted profit functions are estimated using farm-level survey data from Ethiopia in 1994. The results indicate that farmers respond only modestly to price...