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...

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...