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The Choice of Land Tenure Contracts in the Presence of Transaction Costs in Rice Farming in West Java, Indonesia.

Jamal, Erizal; Mardiharini, Maesti - 2009

This study assessed the preference for and efficiency of land tenure contract arrangements in rice farming in West Java, Indonesia. Specifically, it examined the transaction costs associated with land tenure contracts, the land tenure contract preference, the efficiency of land tenure contracts,...

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LAND LEASE MARKETS AND AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIA

Pender, John L.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2001

This paper develops a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs of enforcing labor effort, risk pooling motives and non-tradable productive inputs. We test the implications of this model compared to those of the - Marshallian - (unenforceable labor effort) and "New...

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"Blue Mountains constantly walking': the re-signification of nature and the reconfiguration of the commons in rural Papua New Guinea.

Wagner, John - 1999

Conclusion: In conclusion it should be noted that the land and marine areas comprising Lababia’s Wildlife Management Area are a rich, largely undisturbed ecosystem. Despite the fact that commercial fishing has reached a point of unsustainability, the marine environment as a whole still...

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Quantitative analyses of long-run human capital development: age heaping as an indicator for numeracy

Crayen, Dorothee - 2009

For researchers studying the economic development of nations, the availability of human capital data is crucial. Economists making efforts to examine the impact of human resources on economic development before the end of World War II often face massive problems. Methods of collecting data,...

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Globalisation, models of competitive advantage and skills: SKOPE Research Paper No. 22, Autumn 2001

Keep, Ewart; Maynew, Ken - 2001

triumph of the Ango-Saxon business model of shareholder value capitalism and its dominance over other models of capitalism. At …

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Testing the limits of inclusive capitalism : a case study of the South Africa HP i-community

McFalls, Ricarda - 2007

corporate citizenship, the ideal of “inclusive capitalism” ispopularized by C.K. Prahalad, who evangelizes to corporations about … development imperatives are not easily reconciled. Early language around theinclusive capitalism or BOP discourse emphasizing …

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Schumpeter and the Dynamics of Capitalism: Industrial Development, Economic Evolution and Innovation

Tisdell, Clem - 2000

capitalism. I discuss the relationship between Schumpeter's theories and Darwinian-type theories of economic evolution. I point … Schumpeter's changing views about the sources of innovation under capitalism, and compare Schumpeter's views on the evolution of … capitalism and industrial structure with those of Marx. Both writers believe that capitalism will culminate in socialism but for …

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Varieties of capitalism and varieties of economic theory

Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 1996

This article examines the type of economic analyses of capitalism presented by leading exponents of the neoclassical … that all except the institutionalist school are largely insensitive to different types of structure within capitalism and … are blind to the cultures and institutions which characterize different kinds of capitalism. This conclusion is reached by …

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Political economy of oil production from 1850s to 1974

Perlich, Harry - 2000

A study of the oil industry in its modern development from the 1850s to 1973. During this period the industry underwent significant changes in terms of its productive expansion, the diversity of its products, its role in general production, its corporate organisation and in terms of its...

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The Big Issue of Small Businesses: Contract Enforcement in the New Russia

Vinogradova, Elena - 2005

capitalism. This is an argument of central importance not only for developing and "transition" countries, but for the long …

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