This important book challenges conventional development theory by addressing not only technological but also socio-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world.

By concentrating on the supply side, the existing literature on foreign aid, e.g. the Two Gap or the Dutch Disease model, neglected the role that foreign aid might also play in influencing the level of domestic demand. This paper redresses the balance. It analyses the role of foreign aid in the...

Critics of the free trade doctrine tend to argue that the theory of comparative advantage is not wrong in itself, but that its assumptions are not generally fulfilled in the real world, and hence that free trade is desirable under 'ideal conditions.' By contrast, this paper argues that the...