Although the MIMIC modeling approach and the MCFA method have been greatly used during the past decade, applied measurement invariance studies using these two methods are still sometimes poorly understood and incorrectly conducted. The objective of the current study was to fully understand how...

This paper aims to provide a descriptive and analytical account of the extent to which agriculture in the developing economies has become integrated with external markets. For most developing economies (DEs), the 1980s were a time of crisis when liberal reforms, including domestic and external...