This note shows that in a developing economy, agriculture and Special Economic Zones (SEZ) can grow simultaneously without affecting one another if an appropriate subsidy policy is designed by the government. We consider increasing returns brought about by external economies of scale in the...

Little attention has been devoted to the effects of price dispersion at local and seasonal levels on the measurement of living standards in LDCs. In particular, it is not known if a substantial share of welfare or poverty is the consequence of price differences rather than of differences in...

This paper deals with the effectiveness of several alternative models of aid allocation in terms of poverty reduction. We use a model that admits the presence of diminishing returns to aid in the output and poverty functions. We shall discuss the impact of aid on poverty in a single country,...

Using data from several seasons in Rwanda, we test the indpendence between Laspeyres local and seasonal price indices and nominal living standards in Rwanda. the results show that the hypothesis of independence cannot generally be rejected in rwanda, although the choice of the adult-equivalence...

Comparing aid flows in the 1990s with those from the 1970s make it clear that there are now many more countries receiving what may be termed "high aid" (say in excess of 30 percent of GNP) and that there has emerged a group of countries receiving very high aid. Whilst never formally considered...

Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate censored quantile regressions for both household chronic and transient seasonal poverty indices. The estimation results show that the number of children, the age and the minority ethnic group of the head, and the distance to the nearest market are...