There has long been an active debate in Haiti - as in many other developing countries - over whether or not the customary tenure system constrains technology adoption and agricultural development, and whether cadaster and land titling should be national priorities. This paper contributes to this...

Nothing could be more valuable than creating a new paradigm in economics, particularly in the field of agricultural development. A notable example is T. W. Schultz's (1964) thesis regarding "efficient but poor" small-scale farmers in low-income or developing countries. No less influential is...

This collection of essays by Ruttan and Hayami spans their long career interest in the economics of technical and institutional change. At both a theoretical and empirical level, their analysis of "induced innovation" provides a solid foundation for understanding how and why technologies and...