This paper examines the growing gap between the theoretical and empirical growth literature and policy needs of the developing economies. Growth literature has focused mainly on long term growth outcomes, but policy makers of the developing economies need rapid improvements in the short to...

The Australian banana industry is an example where neither the time series data necessary for estimating grower responses nor the detailed cross sectional data on individual inputs are readily available to enable econometric estimation of producer response to price or cost changes. In this paper...