This Working paper provides an update of an earlier paper entitled "A Profile of Employment in the Agri-Food Sector" (WP No. 1-97). The previous paper covered the period from 1984-1995; in this paper information for 1996 and 1997 has been added. The information provided in this report is derived...

Depuis les annees 1993-1994 en Afrique de l'Ouest, la hausse des prix des cereales et l'explosion des prix du betail et des viandes s'inscrivent dans une tendance regionale, malgre une ampleur et des rythmes differents. On peut desormais se demander si un nouveau palier est atteint dans le...

The dynamics of industrial growth in Jevons' The Coal Question is developed in two directions. Malthus' dynamics of the supply of subsistence and population growth is transposed into one between coal supply and economic growth. A second influence lies with the dynamic evolution of Ricardian...