With the prospect of greater uncertainty in world markets, additional progress will be required to minimize the adverse effects of domestic support policies on international trade; otherwise, turbulent global economic conditions will generate even greater uncertainty and instability in world...

This study of three black rural areas of South Africa shows that apartheid has institutionalized circulating rural-urban migration and significantly affects social and economic fabrics. The areas studied had a high male absentee rate and were poor. Incomes were unequally distributed, with the...

This paper measures the impact of US monetary policy on prices and trade in the workd coarse grains market. A long-run, nonlinear, nonspatial price equilibrium world model of the coarse grains market was constructed that endogenizes the US exchange rate while implicity accounting for the pricing...

Widely accepted views among technical personnel and particularly developmnent programme administrators are that the explanation of widespread range of degradation in pastoral areas lies in the problem of common property (whereby private benefits from putting additional livestock on the range...

This paper examines the determinants of labour demand by the Brazilian farm sector (m particular the role of factor prices, production levels, land use, tractor inventories, and land concentration) to aid understanding of the causes of low rates of farm labour absorption. The research was...

Recent literature on land tenure suggests that tenancy can be an efficient contractual arrangement and that small farms-but not necessanly owner-operated farms-fac1htate a more rapid and labour-mtens1ve development. Such conclus1ons argue for policies that prevent price distortions and emphasize...

Land m Andalusia was traditionally divided between latifundia and minifundia and has remained so to this day. The traditional agricultural economy was based on a symbiosis between the two: smallholders unable to subsist from their plots were able to survive by working as day labourers on the...

Government regulation of agricultural markets sometimes provides incentives that conflict with the government policy objectives. This paper is based on the 1984/85 grain market situation in Senegal. It discusses the potential impacts of regulatory uncertainty on activities of different market...

Returns to both graduate and continuous training programmes developed and earned out by EMBRAPA are estimated, following the standard social rate of return approach. Benefits were measured at the farm level and derived from adoption of new technolog1es associated with training programmes....

Through a series of economic development plans launched since 1953, Taiwan's economy has been transformed from bemgpredommantly agricultural to having industry as the leadmg sector. Throughout that process, farmers faced more and more uncertamt1es. Instead of an increase m farm size due to the...