Based on data gathered during fieldwork in 1981, the article looks at protein-energy malnutrition amongst children in poor farm households in North-east Brazil, from the point of view of household labour resources and development cycles. A high-risk stage of household development through which...

By focussing upon the Bataan EPZ (export processing zone), the paper studies the economic merits of EPZs as a form of export promotion. If is shown that although the absence of trade duties and other regulations led the zone to generate significant benefits for the Philippines, through...