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A Test of Alternative Methods of Making International Product Comparisons
(1976-09)
A nation's GNP in dollars can be estimated by four methods: (1) repricing, which calls for comparisons between U.S. and national output volumes, weighting first by U.S. prices and then by national prices; (2) conversion ...
The Economics of Prestation Systems: A Consumer Analysis of Extended Family Obligations with Application to Zaire
(1976-08)
For the great majority of urban Africans, consumption and savings decisions take place within constraints imposed by prestation systems. Prestation payments, often referred to as extended family obligations, were estimated ...
Efficiency Differentials in Peasant Agriculture and Their Implications for Development Policies
(1976-06)
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical work on allocative efficiency in traditional agriculture and presents a new study of technical efficiency among Tanzanian cotton farmers. The theoretical arguments are shown ...
An Evaluation of Expatriate Labor Replacement in the Ivory Coast
(1976-04)
This study addresses several problems of educational policy posed by the replacement of highly skilled expatriates in the Ivory Coast's labor force. Conceptualizing expatriate replacement as an import-substitution activity ...
Unit Equivalent Scales for Specific Food Commodities: Kinshasa, Zaire
(1976-08)
In demand analysis a per capita specification of the household is not always adequate. Per capita expenditures do not reflect the wide differences in the amount spent on food attributable to differences in the household's ...
Some Problems in the Analysis of Urban Proletarian Politics in the Third World
(1976-03)
This paper assesses the link hypothesized by Marx and his followers between capitalist economic development and the emergence of a sizable and politically progaressive urban proletariat capable of mobilization for revolutionary ...
Will Raising Wages in the High-Wage Sector Increase Total Employment?-A Critique of the Stewart-Weeks View on the Relationship Between Wage Changes and Unemployment in LDC's
(1976-08-3)
Frances Stewart and John Weeks have recently argued that increasing the wage rate in the "controlled" sector of an underdeveloped economy may increase total employment in some plausible circumstances. This paper examines ...
Interactions of Childhood Mortality and Fertility in W. Malaysia: 1947-1970
(1976-09)
This paper outlines a model of fertility and infant and toddler mortality that incorporates the perspective that parents have a substantial influence on the probability of childhood survival. Fertility is argued to be one ...
A Model of a South-African-Type Economy
(1976-10)
The purpose of this article is to give a broad stylized picture of how the South African economy "works," of the behavior of its economic actors, of the constraints to and the goals of white policy, and of the directions ...
The Impact of Export Incentives and Export-Related Policies on the Firms of the Less Developed Countries - A Case Study of the Philippines
(1976-09)
This study attempts to shed some light upon how export incentives and other export-related policies influence the behavior of actrive and potential exporters. It asks several interrelated questions: 1) how do firms view ...