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 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...

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...

The first section of this paper reviews the most recent evidence on inequality in 18 LatinAmerican countries and shows that in all but four the changes in inequality over the1990s were small and insignificant. The distribution depends on the ownership and rateof return on assets, particularly...

Growth in the first post-reform decade in Latin America has been disappointing, largelybecause of a severe slowdown after 1995 in the countries in South America. Per capitaincome grew at only .9% per year between 1995 and 1999 compared to 2.7% for 1950-80and 1.5% for the nineties as a whole....