The cumulative effect of natural resource degradation has served to raise the issue of "sustainable development" in many LDCs. The author explores this issue in respect of Santa Cruz in the Amazon region of Bolivia.There is evidence that technical solutions exist for many of the small farmers...

The author derives a Social Interest Rate (SIR) for Trinidad and Tobago on the basis of an individualistic, independent and multiperiod consumption utility function. The component parameters of this rate are: a mortality-based pure time discount rate, the growth rate of per capita real...

The authors explain the emergence of a substantial-sized small-scale sector in an industry in which a number of large enterprises were already well established. The barrier normally set up by the requirements associated with large-scale production was overcome by small enterprises practising...

Based on the hypothesis that Egyptian farmers maximise economic profits, the multiproduct translog profit function is used to estimated input demand and output supply functions for corn, rice and cotton corps grown in Egypt's Nile delta. It is shown that Egypt's agricultural policies of taxing...

Using a sample of Latin American firms from four areas (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Central America), the study compares the performance and technological activity of transnational to domestic firms. After accounting for scale, age and location of the firms, the authors find few differences in...

This article outlines theoretically the aggregate savings implications of differences in business and personal savings propensities. Time series empirical tests for the developing economies of Guyana and Jamaica generate the conclusion that the marginal business savings rate is much higher than...

The impact of trade liberalisation on the sources of economic rents and their distribution among factors and within labour led to an increase in the share of the informal sector as a consequence of changes in the labour mobility patterns

The article challenges the thesis that local-level bureaucrats need be part of any "dominant coalition" at the village level. Based on a case study of Egyptian agricultural officials, the paper argues that local bureaucrats may well be more useless than dominant in any political or economic...

The author identifies the contractual terms in sharecropping that result in efficient use of resources. Evidence is then presented from Pakistan to comment on the manner in which landlords ensure that sharecroppers fulfil the terms. It is shown that landlords in general specify contract terms...