Durante el pasado medio siglo tanto las políticas como el análisis teórico se han concentrado fuertemente en el impacto del comercio exterior en el contexto de esfuerzos individuales de desarrollo de los PED. Con la mayor parte de los PED, enfatizando el cambio desde un enclave de materias...

In 1996 I presented a paper on North-South conflicts at the January meetings of the Peace Science Society, International. It has been suggested that an update in the light of major events which have occurred since might be in order. Indeed, despite some of the views recently expressed, not only...

At the very time that professional skepticism concerning the effectiveness of foreign aid has reached new heights, donors seem to be ready to substantially increase the volume of aid they are willing to make available. This paper attempts to address this paradox by first examining the record of...

The labor surplus economy model has as its basic premise the inability of unskilled agricultural labor markets to clear in countries with high man/land ratios. In such situations, the marginal product of labor is likely to fall below a bargaining wage, related to the average rather than the...

This paper examines the apparent conflict between the classical assumption of a bargaining agricultural sector wage and the neoclassical assumption of a competitive wage in the context of a labor surplus developing economy. It concludes that the relatively inelastic supply of labor hours offered...