In their comprehensive paper, Montague Yudelman, Annu Ratta, and David Nygaard examine the key issues with regard to pest management and food production over the coming decades. They draw attention to the lack of adequate information on the magnitude and impact of pest losses; with out such...

The challenge for agriculture over the coming decades will be to meet the world's increasing demand for food in a sustainable way. Declining soil fertility and mismanagement of plant nutrients have made this task more difficult. In this brief, Peter Gruhn, Francesco Goletti, and Montague...

The need to expand the export of manufactures from less developed countries has now been realised by national and international bodies. To device meaningful policies, it seems necessary to understand whether and how the share of manufactures in a country's total exports is related to certain...

The developing countries which had been the net exporters of cereals vis-a-vis the developed countries in the 1930s have gradually turned into net importers over the last few decades. If the ,,green revolution" is able to persist, the net food importing regions of Asia may become self sufficient...

Sargant Florence pointed out long ago that broad technological factors seemed to underlie inter-industry differences in the typical size of plants. Much attention has been paid in several other recent studies to factors affecting average size of plants in industries and its variations among...

An important issue that confronts small sector development policy in manufacturing is the question of whether small-scale plants are in the long-run viable or must they disappear in the development process. This question is important because answers to it may indicate whether small-scale plants...

The problem of how to make an optimum use of a country's limited productive resources is often a crucial one to the policy makers in less developed countries (LDCs). Not surprisingly, therefore, the various methods of cost-benefit analysis have attracted much attention among professional...