Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development encompasses comprehensive issues like health, education, equality, and liveability while growth is too narrow a concept. This paper analyses the growth and development experience...

Community-based tourism (CBT) is a viable alternative to promoting sustainable rural development. In the same vein, sustainable rural development is possible by reinforcing the priority of local policies and increasing the involvement of local communities in the development process to achieve...

This article presents a discussion over the evolution of agriculture of different typologies of rural economies (subsistence economy, traditional economy, agricultural economy, rural economy, territorial economy). Following the introduction we specify, from a theoretical point of view, the...

Rapid urbanization is a fact of live even in the least developed countries (LDCs) where the lion’s share of the population presently lives in rural areas and will continue to do so for decades to come. At the turn of the millennium 75% of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and...

The objective of this study is to identify likely factors driving the 2010 rice price hike and suggest options to manage rice price volatility in the future. Regional trade is likely the main proximate cause for high glutinous rice prices. Trade with Vietnam was likely the main reason for...

The premise of this paper is that globalization faces a endogenously generated crisis which has both economic and political dimensions, a result of the specific combination of continuity and change that has marked its historical trajectory. While western dominance, financialization, and the...

This paper first seeks to establish that no breakthrough in industrialization has coincided with the transition to a liberalized and open economic policy regime since 1991, and then examines the reasons behind this failure of India to break her industrialization impasse. It asserts that the real...

The paper investigates the impacts of different health indicators on Economic growth in Pakistan. The Cointegration and Error Correction techniques were applied on the time series data of Pakistan for the period of 1972-2006. We find that Per capita GDP is positively influenced by health...

The paper develops a Balance of Payments (BOP)-consistent procedure for estimating unreported flows. Using data between 1990 and 2007, total unreported flows of selected Asian countries is estimated at $4.7 trillion, or more than 80% of the countries’ 2007 total gross domestic product. Results...