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On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
The validity of using local market data to measure the benefits associated with policies adopted in an urban area is investigated. It is shown that the rest of the world is affected by taxing decisions undertaken in a ...
Authoritarian Politics in Unincorporated Society : The Case of Nasser's Egypt
(1974)
Contemporary Egypt provides evidence against, and induces modifications of, a widely accepted proposition concerning modernization. This proposition suggests that modernization, in the sense of social mobilization, tends ...
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 ...
Politics, Development strategy, and Family y Planning Programs in India and Pakistan
(Sage Publications, 1971)
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 ...