This paper evaluates the impact of climate change, as projected by two Global Climate Models (GCMs) on the occurrence of extreme precipitation events in the Upper Thames River Basin in the Canadian province of Ontario. The modelling approach presented herein involves a two-stage process of...

Involuntary wage-unemployment in poor agriculture is shown to apply only to the working poor who suffer economic distress--working longer at lower wage rates but earning smaller incomes; these workers are also observed to engage in low-productive self-employment activities to supplement their...

Subsistence is analysed as an endogenous variable, contrary to its conventional exogenous treatment. It is postulated that the subsistence-livers perceive their own standard of subsistence, direct their earnings behaviour towards attaining, maintaining or exceeding this standard and, thus,...