Pakistan's stated policy is to increase basmati rice production through price support measures and liberalization of input markets. The present study assesses the scope for price support policy to achieve growth targets and whether additional assistance is needed from non-price policy measures....

The dispute between the US and EU over GM foods at the WTO is examined in terms of the issues it raises about protectionism and environmental protection and precaution. The issue of whether GM, GM Derived and Non-GM foods are equivalent to each other is examined using data from a national choice...

Accurate forecasts of energy demand are required for public policy formation, but estimation of the residential demand for electricity presents a number of conceptual and statistical problems. This paper focuses on two interrelated issues in electricity demand analysis: model specification with...

This paper is published in full in European Review of Agricultural Economics Vol 28(4) (2001) pp.479-498 http://erae.oupjournals.org/content/vol28/issue4/

This study, using a survey of rural households in Zimbabwe in 1990 j91, focuses on the effects of changing household composition on patterns of expenditure and provides estimates of the 'cost of a child' as well as of family members in other age groups. In addition to age differences in the size...