Farm-level trade-offs between development objectives are analysed using a three-stage methodological design. Firstly, a typology of arming systems is devised, using data from a farm-level survey and the methods of principal components analysis and cluster analysis. Five farm types are described...

The relationship between appreciation of the exchange rate and employment is investigated in the period 1980-2008 for the United States. Previous literature has found a negative relationship, studying as channels of transmission the role of exports, substitution of factors of production, terms...

The concepts of competition and its derivatives, competitiveness and competitive advantage feature as highly on the current development agendas and policy debates of developing countries as they do in the developed world, yet they are sufficiently opaque to make any discussion of the...

This paper outlines a framework for the analysis of economic integration and its relation to the asymmetries of economic and social development. Breaking with state-centric forms of social science, it argues for a research agenda that is more adequate to the exigencies and consequences of...

At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies, as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty in the effectiveness...

At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty as to the effectiveness...

Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

Thailand has experienced economic growth well above world averages for about 40years. It is a challenge to understand the sources of this high growth path, and inparticular why growth has not slowed down with assumed decreasing returns to capital.We develop an intertemporal general equilibrium...

This paper presents an applied microsimulation model built on household data withexplicit treatment of heterogeneity of skills, labor preferences and opportunities, andconsumption preferences at the individual and/or household level, while allowing for anendogenous determination of relative...

Using a CGE (computable general equilibrium) model for Zimbabwe with 1991 asbase period, this paper examines quantitatively the income and equity effects ofmacroeconomic reform measures in isolation and in conjunction with potentiallycomplementary changes in agricultural sector policies. Some...