This article argues that the transformation of the rural economy should proceed on a broad front which links the development of the state sector with the need to transform family agriculture through co-operation. In actual fact, planning became concentrated on the state sector which received the...

The central variable through which the rural sector influences the Ethiopian national economic performance is the marketed proportion of output. The study deals with the linkage and with the macroeconomic distributional outcomes of the growth process for the rural and urban sectors. The probable...

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...