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...

The authors enquire whether the schooling of the farmers has a significant influence on yield that is independent of the influence of other non-formal forms of education, which is represented by their understanding of the technology and whether schooling has a greater influence than their...

The dynamic consequences of machine threshing in the Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT) of Peninsular India are evaluated. Limited diffusion of threshers in the SAT of the country. Cost savings and profitability of mechanical threshing. The marked decrease in labour hiring for threshing between 1975/76 and...

Growth of domestic consumption of agricultural exportables is a neglected aspect of LDCs' long-run primary export performance. Price and income elasticities of local demand for specific exportables vary with economic development. The Peruvian sugar industry was chosen to illustrate why and how...