Contents: Virginia Farming in Transition, by Wayne D. Purcell; Growth in Virginia: People and Jobs on the Move, by Todd McNew and Bradford Mills; Managing Agriculture and Growth in Virginia: The Role of Planning and Zoning, by Michael Chandler; Tools and Incentives to Manage Agriculture and...

With the growing competition for Federal dollars, the land grant universities were asked to justify their budget to the Congress and the Office of Management and Budget using benefitcost analysis. The authors review previous studies of returns to agricultural research and present an analysis of...

Micro simulated general equilibrium approach was used to analyze the economic significance of the current export promotion policy of Ethiopia. Simulation results, in general, indicated little achievements of economic growth and poverty reduction under selective export promotion. In this policy...