This article examines the role of agriculture in economic development in three Asian countries Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Agricultural output increased substantially and agricultural exports were achieved at the initial stage of economic development on Japan and Taiwan In Korea, however,...

Size-of-farm data for 1964 were fitted to the function In Y =In a�bX Results showed that the percentage distribution of farms by size classes tends to follow the distribution of an inverse exponential function. Furthermore, empirical size distributions seem to have an underlying stability...

A generally accepted theory of firm behavior is incorporated into an abstract computerized simulation model capable of handling many different environments and organizations. This model provides a means of studying management problems using the simulation approach by providing, in most...

La meilleur de tousles tarifs serait celui qui ferait payer a ceux qui passent sur une voie de communication un peage proportionnel a l'utilite qu'ils retirent du passage.1—Jules Dupuit, 1849.

A number of possible geographic delineations can be used for areal allocation of population, income, employment, and other social and economic characteristics, in a rural developm~nt indicator system. This paper shows that estimates of statistical parameters vary for alternative geographic...

".. . The concept of property never has been, is not, and never can be of definite content. The paradigm of a Sanskrit verb of a thousand forms could not approach in diversities the phases of that concept in any time and place. . . . Changing culture causes the law to speak with new imperatives,...

Education of the youth is recognized by workers in rural development as one of the most hopeful means of achieving satisfactory adjustment in low-income rural areas. Some writers have concluded that inadequacies in this regard represent one of the major causes for the persistence of problems in...

Comparisons of successive frequency distributions may be made in two distinct ways that are frequently confused. One way is to make comparison against a given set of class intervals covering the relevant range of the data. The result is a fixed frame of reference, a single classification grid....