As economic growth and development occurs in India, it has been thought that dowry would decline as an institution. However, the practice of dowry has rapidly spread to regions in India where previously it was not extensively practiced and dowry inflation may be occurring. In this paper, a...

This paper utilizes the dualistic model of development to analyze the development of three regions: Northeast Asia, China, and India. There are many similarities between the development processes experienced by the first two regions. They involved rapid agricultural growth as a foundation for...

Many developing countries have chosen to use a variety of policy instruments to transfer resources out of agriculture and to the manufacturing and, in some countries, the service sector. It will be argued in this paper that such policies slow structural change, create incentives for capital...