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Consistent Aggregation of Family and Hired Labor in Agricultural Production Functions
(1978-01)
An estimated production function for the Muda river valley in Malaysia is used to examine three issues: (1) whether or not labor marginal product is zero, (2) whether or not farm households allocate resources efficiently ...
The Impact of the Commonwealth Preference System on the Exports of Latin America to the United Kingdom
(1973-07)
This paper is organized into three parts: Section I details objections to David Wall's analysis of the Commonwealth Preference System and its impact on exports to the UK; Section II develops a more appropriate analytical ...
Politics, Privilege and Progress in Liberia - A Review Article
(1970)
Book review of: LIBERIA, THE EVOLUTION OF PRIVILEGE by J. Gus Liebenow. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1969, 247 pp.
The Urban Popular Economy and Informal Sector Production
(1978-02)
The primary purpose of this paper is to present a method of analyzing one aspect of the growing inequity in the distribution of income in many developing countries--the situation of people living in very low income "squatter ...
Changes in Income Distribution, 1961-1971
(1974)
This paper evaluates the factors underlying the change in Tunisia's income distribution between 1961 and 1971. It concludes that the number of households below the real poverty line has decreased significantly. There has ...
The Cost and Composition of Indian Exports
(1972-05)
India has a long history of export promotion policies amounting to a drive for export maximization. These policies have been applied without regard to comparative advantage and this study indicates the high cost of India's ...
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 ...
Internal Effects of Devaluation
(1973)
Many economic advisors believe that one of the few crucial policies in the economy of an underdeveloped country, within its controls, is a correct exchange rate. This, in turn, has a strategic influence on the structure ...
American Economic Interests in Foreign Countries: An Empirical Survey
(1974-04)
The objective of this paper is to provide a firm factual basis for analyzing the economic stake of the United States in foreign countries. The paper consists essentially of an annotated series of tables documenting the ...
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 ...