This paper reviews the economic models explaining the directions of technical change. The application to agricultural sector is also explored. The induced innovation model extensively used in agricultural development studies has left unexplained stylized facts in several empirical evidences....

The objectives of this research were to 1) study farmers' perceptions on crop insurance of first rice and 2) examine key characteristics of crop insurance as viewed by farmers. A field survey was conducted to interview 246 famers. The research findings were as follows 1) overall perception of...

This article aims at introducing a spatial aspect of analyzing the relationship between economic growth and poverty, in which the geographical disparity plays an important role. A case study of growth poverty elasticity of Sumatra, Indonesia, using district-level data, is provided as an example...