The main purpose of this paper is to analyze empirically the determinants of India's trade balance and inflation during the period 1952-1977, with particular emphasis on the impact of monetary disquilibrium on these variables. (DSE)

The paper analyzes the recently initiated Financial Assistance Plan (FAP) of Government of Botswana within the framework of the incentives created for a profit-maximizing firm. The results suggest that it is very difficult to devise indirect second-best policies if there is considerable...

Using a proxy for the rate of profit, this study does not confirm for Ghana (1970) the hypothesis that foreign firms make exessive profits as compared with other ownership groups of firms. Instead, the general tendency of the data is to rank the rates of profit for mixed private local-foreign...

A simple regression model is estimated and seems to provide a fairly good explanation of what has hitherto appeared to be a puzzling feature of post-war Philippines economic performance - high growth rates of output and employment, accompanied by declining real wages (in turn being associated...

This paper uses household data from the Philippines to examine jointly household decisions on family size and child quality, using nutritional status as a measure of quality. The results suggest that there are significant substitutions away from larger families and towards higher quality...

This paper proposes a new way of establishing a food poverty line taking into account regional food preferences and prices. It uses this poverty line to derive a food poverty measure which satisfies the desirable fundamental properties of such measures and has the additional advantage of being...