Examines rural poverty trends between 1950/51 and 1983/84. Finds that a rise in relative agricultural prices raises the incidence of rural poverty. Concludes that awarding price incentives to farmers to increase agricultural production is therefore not a desirable policy option.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a case study of the attitudes and perceptions of Lesotho migrant workers in South Africa R - covers demographic aspects, occupational status, motivational reasons for emigration, role of wage differentials, impact on living conditions and family life...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting findings of an Experiment on econometric modelling of the long term employment impact of disarmament - examines consequences for regional level economic growth and economic structure, world-wide employment creation, and income and consumption in...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on agrarian reform and rural migration in Chile - provides an historical overview of trends from 1865 to 1970, and examines commercialization of agriculture and its implications for migration in the long term, land settlement, agricultural worker...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a long term econometric model of economic growth in Japan from 1906 to 1940 - examines the effects of technological change, labour supply and demographic variables in a dualistic economy, and constitutes part of a WEP research project concerned with...

The long term discount rate is critically dependent upon projections of future growth rates that are fuzzier in proportion to the remoteness of the time horizon. This paper models such increasing fuzziness as an evolving hidden-state stochastic process. The underlying trend growth rate is an...

The paper investigates the long run historic development of the Amsterdam rental housing market (1550–1850). Using rent data on a large cross section of residential properties in Amsterdam we are able to develop an annual constant-quality rent index for the entire time period. Whereas nominal...

French farming underwent major changes in its productive space throughout the nineteenth century due to fast demographic disruptions and a wavering economic growth until 1929. Some major farming areas date back to that time. However, we shall show here that integrating new ways of farming ? more...

In the age of global economy, the possession of unique knowledge and high specialization skills is the key to progress. Under such circumstances, running a business means gaining competitive advantage, especially in terms of intellectual potential. Five sectors: high-tech industry, R&D,...