This paper suggests that current tactics in the 'war on terror' are predictably counterproductive, and that these 'failing' tactics actually serve a range of political, economic and psychological functions for diverse actors who make up the 'war on terror' coalition. It compares the 'war on...

The paper argues against the notion that wars, whether international or civil in nature, are essentially irrational and “imposed” on societies. Rather they should be regarded as emerging from political and economic processes taking place within such societies—particularly when “peace”...

The purpose of this paper is to examine three cases which provide some insight into the character of international transmission of technical change and its economic impacts and implications. These cases focus on three separate commodities, sugarcane, bananas, and rice. Each case presents...

This paper examines the impact of public and private agricultural research and extension on agricultural total factor productivity at the state level. We test the hypothesis that the composition of agricultural experiment station funding—share of funding from impact of federal competitive...

This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural experiment station research.  The econometric model consists of a complete-demand system covering four major resource sources, and it is fitted to annual observations on 48...

The impact of public and private research to agricultural productivity in the US between 1950 and 1982 were assessed using an econometric model. Analysis of US aggregate measures of multifactor agricultural productivity was undertaken using imputation-accounting, statistical meta-function and...

This chapter describes the impact of national agricultural research systems on the unfolding of the Green Revolution in four regions: Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although international institutions contributed much of the research that led to...