The paper aims to measure transaction costs and its effects on labor market participation and on wage earnings. The observed differences between between buying and selling prices of rice across households are used to calculate transaction costs indices for villages which are incorporated into...

Of the diverse factors motivating technological change, one factor that has received increasing attention in the recent past has been the protection of intellectual property rights. Given fairly recent changes in the international policy ethos where a regime of stronger intellectual property...

Genetically Modified Crops (GMO foods) have been widely available to farmers since 1996. The Gene Revolution, based on recombinant DNA (rDNA) genetic engineering techniques, is seen by proponents as both supplanting Green Revolution varieties, based on conventional plant breeding techniques, and...

This paper examines, within the new growth theory framework, the contribution of international technological spillovers using panel data for eleven Asian countries over the period 1970-93. A country's productivity growth is shown to depend not only on its domestic R&D investment but also on the...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Innovation in an Historical Perspective: Tales of Technology and Evolution -- Part II COUNTRY STUDIES -- 3 The United States -- 4 Japan -- 5 Germany -- 6 France -- 7...

This work addresses key issues in market development for genetically modified foods. It focuses on: consumer reactions to GM food information; regulatory issues; farmer acceptance of biotech products; changes in industrial organization in life science and food sectors.

There are a number of controversial issues that surround agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified products. International trade and policies are at the forefront of these controversies. This book addresses these issues and has been developed from a meeting of the International...