The article attempts to develop a complex analytical frame for analysing socialist agrarian reform, and to apply it to the case of post-Mao China. The purpose of doing so is to disaggregate the complex changes which have been wrought under the responsibility systems' in order to get a more...

The relationship between domestic credit creation and the balance of payments of Ghana has been investigated by Franco. We argue that his analysis greatly oversimplifies the policy problem facing the public sector in Ghana. We extend Franco's model (and correct his data) showing that there is no...

Having tested the hypothesis that there is a causal relationship between money supply and the aggregate price index, the authors develop and estimate a simple model of Indonesia's monetary sector using quarterly time-series data for the period 1969 (I) to 1984 (IV). The hypothesis of a causal...

In an attempt to determine the origins of sex differences in average earnings, the conventional human capital earnings function is applied to a set of Malaysian wage data. The results demonstrate that women earn considerably less than men for reasons other than differences in (observable)...

The functioning of rural social organisation is affected by seasonality. The nature of this effect depends on the degree to which the organisation is related to the agricultural production cycle and the degree to which it has access to outside resources such as funds or personal. Organisations...

The revolutionary transformation of economy and society in Nicaragua, since the overthrow of the Somoza dynasty in 1979 by the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional, has necessarily involved a profound agrarian reform. The author characterizes the main elements of agrarian transformation as a...

"Anti-incentivism", bureaucratic controls and extractive external environments are identified as factors inhibiting successful collective farming in both Tanzania and China. These tendencies in the two countries are explained with reference to their political economies and ideological...