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The Use of Export Projections in Allocating Foreign Aid among and Domestic Resources within Developing Countries
(1971-07)
Foreign exchange shortages have been considered by many economists as the effective restraint to growth in the developing world. This is especially the case insofar as less developed countries (LDCs) are limited in their ...
Distribution of Market Centers, Market Periodicities, and Marketing in Northwestern Nigeria
(1970-08)
In this paper I wish to add to our knowledge of markets and marketing in northern Nigeria. Hopefully, a number of such studies will result in a complete map of periodic markets in Nigeria. In addition to attempting to ...
A Village Level Study of Producer Grain Transactions in Rural Senegal
(1979-06)
Aim of this study is to provide a summary of principal producer grain transactions and to discuss in greater detail millet marketing in rural Senegal. First this paper provides some background information on Senegal ...
Ellet's Transportation Model of an Economy with Differentiated Commodities and Consumers, I: Generic Cumulative Demand Functions
(1978-06)
The goal of this paper is to study in details examples which should lead to deeper insights and a stronger intuition for exactly what kind of behavior one can expect in concrete economies with differentiated products and ...
Economic Sanctions: The Theory and the Evidence from Rhodesia
(1977-03)
The theory behind universal economic santions is simple: to impose hardship on the target country and thereby reduce its ability or willingness to persist in antagonizing the world community. But the precise way in which ...
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 ...
The Cost of Tying Aid: A Method and Some Comlumbian Estimates
(1971-01)
In an ever more determined effort to prevent its foreign economic aid from hurting its balance of payments, the United States placed increasing restrictions during the 1960s on the manner in which its aid could be spent. ...