Throughout the past three decades, since World War II, development has been viewed as an important goal of national life for the poor and rich nations alike. The emerging nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America have come to see development as a continuation of the struggle that has won them...

Although most of the rice area in Indonesia is still prepared manually, since the early 1980s the government has promoted tractors for land preparation through subsidized loans. This has increased capital investment in agriculture; and for the farmers, the cost of owning and operatingtractor has...

In recent years, governmental and nongovernmental organizations in many low-income countries have introduced credit programs targeted to the poor. Many of these programs specifically target the poor on the premise that they are more likely to be credit constrained and have restricted access to...

During the transition of the Vietnamese economy, adaptation of the financialsystem was one of the most challenging reforms. A major task of this reformwas to expand the financial system?s outreach to the newly emerging privatesector and household economies, especially in rural areas. Therefore,...

In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...

This paper is a retrospective analysis of the effects of Somalia's price policies for maize and sorghum between 1971 and 1983. Maize and sorghum are the two most important dietary staple foods and represent over 96 percent of the cereal production of the country. Since the early 1970's, the...

This study uses one year (1989-90) of households survey data covering all livestock transactions and input expenditures to examine the equity impacts of the Senegalese livestock policy and the factors affecting purchases and sales of small ruminants in three study zones of the Senegalese Peanut...

We study the factors influencing the sugar imports in China. A multivariate linear regression model for quantitative analysis in established and the model is researched with multicollinearity treatment, autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity test. Research result shows that the per capita income...

The aim of this study is to contribute to the explanation of consumer behaviour.To do so, it is not sufficient to identify the product characteristics most relevant tothe consumer. Moreover, the reasons why consumers attach meaning to the productattributes have to be found out, whereas the...

Kazakhstan?s agricultural sector plays an important role in the country'seconomy. Not only does it function as an economic output producer, it alsoserves as a social buffer in times of transition to a market economy. Therestructuring process had a strong impact on the economic performance...