The three basic sources of growth in any economy are growth in inputs of production, improvements in the efficiency of allocation of inputs across economic activities, and innovation that creates new products...
Counting the world's poor: problems and possible solutions; by Angus Deaton. Comments on "counting the world's poor"; by Martin Ravallion, and T. N. Srinivasan. Ecology, history, and development : a perspective...
Deaton’s analysis of the problems with poverty counts and suggestions for improvement, including issues needing further research, are based on two distinct stages in counting the poor. At the first or...
In 1990 Williamson coined the term 'Washington consensus' to describe 'the lowest common denominator of policy advice being addressed by the Washington institutions to Latin American countries as of 1989.'...
The impact of agricultural extension: the training and visit system in India. Issues in medium-term macroeconomic adjustment. Shelter strategies for the urban poor in developing countries. The costs and...
This report is devoted to a survey of recent contribution to a field in which the many areas of Lewis's interest, namely, development planning, development practice, foreign trade theory and policy, as...
This paper considers a model of linkage between land, labor and credit transactions in the context of sharecropping. The paper's objectives are: a) to derive and characterize the equilibrium in a model...