The authors focus on tests of labour aggregation and profits maximising behaviour of farmers in a village in Bangladesh. Special emphasis is placed on the role of farm size and tenancy status. The results reported in the article indicate that farmers whose operated areas and/or tenancy states...

The article explores the impact of land ownership security on farmer's input use and output value. Economic theory suggests that farmers with secure legal ownership will have more incentives and better ability to invest, due to lower perceived risk and a favourable access to institutional...

The paper tries to ascertain whether CARICOM countries can replicate the economic success of Singapore, based on export-oriented industrialisation. The issues raised in the paper highlight the difficulties confronting CARICOM countries as they pursue a similar policy. (DÜI-Sen)

The article develops an analytical framework based on the economics of steady and non-steady growth states for explaining variations in growth performance in the context of the Indian economy. It is shown, among other things, that the steady growth contribution of labour accounts for a...

Based on an extended human capital model, some earning functions are estimates for Punjab. The earnings differentials between native and migrant workers based on their productivity-related characteristics and labour market discrimination are explored. The study finds that while migrants face...

Emphasising that there is a relative dimension to deprivation, the paper makes an attempt to decompose income inequality among the rural poor into inequality in earnings per worker, in participation rate and covariance of earnings per worker and participation rate. The analysis based on a...

Three decades of government intervention in favour of export-oriented large-scale commercial farming in Brazilian Amazonia have contributed significantly to an agrarian crisis in the region. After tracing the roots of this crisis in official rural development policy for Amazonia, the author...

Increasing agricultural production and the reduction of rural inequality in income distribution are major goals of irrigated land settlement in developing countries. This contribution discusses the levels and determinants of observed differences in technical and allocative efficiency among...