Using data collected by the Economic and Statistical Organisation of the Government of Punjab under the survey 'The Working class Family Income and Expenditure in Punjab, 1975-76', the authors estimate the expanded version of the human capital model. On the average public sector workers are paid...

Two contrasting views about the relationship between agriculture and industry and in particular about the optimal level of the terms of trade between these two sectors are identified and set in the context of the political economy of contemporary India. It is argued in particular that single...

This article employs a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) to analyse the economic structure of a rural economy using 1982 household data from a major migrant-sending village in Central Mexico. The results highlight the central role of both internal and international migration on the village economy,...

The application of an econometric model to survey data from 351 Bangladeshi households indicates between that there are important linkages between a farmer's occupational status and his material input demand, supervision inputs and therefore, farm productivity. The results show that occupational...

The transition to socialism involves a number of interrelated and often contradictory processes: on the one hand, the need to transform colonial structures, while on the other hand, because of the necessity to avoid economic collapse, productive forces must be preserved. The Zimbabwean...

The purpose of this article is to argue for the viability and the logic of a distinctive approach to planning economic development and socialist transition in poor economies. The components of this distinctive approach are: more decentralised and popularly-based planning and control of...

Nicaragua's experience in the agricultural sector between 1979 and 1987 shows using planning to achieve state centered accumulation is inappropriate for peripheral nations in transition. Peasant-based strategies, which make a greater use of decentralised market mechanisms are necessary. But...

This article discusses the struggle for land in the State of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that the outcome of similar struggles depends upon a combination of economic, political and socio-ecological factors that vary through time and space

The causal complexities and rationality of high-grading are examined in the small-scale antimony mines of the Jukumani indians of Northern Potosi, Bolivia. Taxes and piece rate systems of payment provide incentives for selected removal of ore. The effect of piece rate work on high-grading and...