Recent articles by Kushner and Meisner (1980) and Kushner, Lebow and Meisner (1981) have posed the problem of characterising the 'EP' functions f(S) for which Ef(S) for which E(f(S)) = [lambda]nf([Sigma]) for some [lambda]n [epsilon] , whenever the m x m matrix S has the Wishart distribution...

Suppose that the random vector (X1, ..., Xq) follows a Dirichlet distribution on q+ with parameter (p1, ..., pq)[set membership, variant]q+. For f1, ..., fq0, it is well-known that (f1X1+...+fqXq)-(p1+...+pq)=f-p11...f-pqq. In this paper, we generalize this expectation formula...

Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. By Robert Chambers. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1996. Pp.xx + 297. £3.25. ISBN 1 85339 386 X Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone. By Paul Richards. Oxford: The International African Institute in...

The cycle of various economic stabilisation efforts in Argentina during the 1980s has often been characterised as reflecting either policy confusion on the part of officials or their unwillingness to depart from an obsolete model of economic development. Hence, according to some, the alternation...

The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. By Jacob Metzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xxii + 275. £40. ISBN 0 521 46550 8 The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan. By Timothy J. Piro. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Pp.xvi + 152. $54.00 and $19.95. ISBN 0...

This paper examines the problems of public and institutional reforms within the context of a so-called predatory state. The predatory state is one that acts in the interest of an elite rather than pursue a coherent strategy for economic development. The argument is that, even after the process...

In a recent book entitled Pop Internationalism Paul Krugman takes to task several prominent commentators who in recent years have published works decrying the loss of competitive position of the United States in an increasingly global economy. In particular, Krugman critically considers and...

This paper examines the problems of public and institutional reforms within the context of a so-called predatory state. The predatory state is one that acts in the interest of an elite rather than pursue a coherent strategy for economic development. The argument is that, even after the process...

We obtain approximations to the distribution of the exponent in the matrix Fisher distributions on SO(p) and on O(p) whose density with respect to Haar measure is proportional to exp(Tr GX0tX). Similar approximations are found for the distribution of the exponent in the Bingham distribution,...