National policydecisions in developing countries contribute to the increasing integration of agriculture into national and world economies. The spatial consequences of national policies, however, vary across regions and agricultural systems. Employing and adapting a methodology first proposed by...

The location quotient is a popular indirect method for the estimation of regional export activity. The appeal of the technique has extended to developing countries, but very little effort has been made to test, on empirical grounds, whether the extension is warranted. This article uses a region...