This book analyzes economic developments of Indonesia and Nigeria during the period 1950-85. It addresses why Indonesia was so much more successful than Nigeria during this period. The book consists of...
In economics, as in biology, small islands can provide illuminating examples of the interactions of internal dynamics and external pressures in a restricted space. This book examines five small open economies...
This study of Uruguay and Costa Rica reveals two countries with striking similarities in initial conditions, economic policies and outcomes. It portrays two countries that have achieved relatively high...
The core of this study is an in-depth analysis of the economic effects of agricultural economic interventions in eighteen developing countries during the period from 1960 to 1985. The theoretical approach...
Brazil and Mexico are two of the largest middle-income developing countries and they have long histories as independent nations. Both are rich in natural and human resources. From 1929 to the early 1980s...
This is the fifth of five volumes summarizing the results of the World Bank research project, A Comparative Study of the Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policies. The project consisted of eighteen...
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have similar land areas and resource endowments. Both countries were once colonies, and in both a large plantation and mining export sector coexists with a peasant rice economy...
The author compares the secular Islamic countries of Egypt and Turkey, both part of the Ottoman Empire around World War I. At that time both had similar levels of population, income and development. After...
This study covers the latter part of the 1960s, the entire 1970s, and the first years of the 1980s. During this period, agricultural policy has undergone major changes, from a period in which subsidized...
This study covers the latter part of the 1960s, the entire 1970s, and the first years of the 1980s. During this period, agricultural policy has undergone major changes, from a period in which subsidized...
This report summarizes the results of an agricultural study in Asia. The project employed a common analytical framework and entailed close collaboration between the investigators and the project's three...
This report summarizes the results of an agricultural study in Latin America. The project employed a common analytical framework and entailed close collaboration between the investigators and the project's...
Agriculture is the mainstay of Pakistan's economy. Nearly 24% of total output and 50% of total employment is generated in agriculture and it accounts for 30% of Pakistan's exports. Agriculture also provides...
From the twentieth century until World War II, Argentina was a leading exporter of agricultural goods. In the early 1980s, agriculture accounted for roughly 57 percent of the country's total exports. During...
This study concentrates on measuring and analyzing the effects of trade and agricultural pricing policies on the agricultural sector up until 1985, with particular attention to rice and corn, the main...
This report shows that Ghana's economic decline of agricultural prices cannot be attributed solely to government price intervention. But intervention in the workings of the cocoa sector contributed heavly...
The objectives of this study were twofold. The first objective was to measure for the 1960 -84 period the level of price intervention on agricultural products and the effects it had on output, consumption...
The objectives of this study were twofold. The first objective was to measure for the 1960 -84 period the level of price intervention on agricultural products and the effects it had on output, consumption...
Este informe resume los resultados de un estudio sobre la agricultura en América Latina. El proyecto empleó un marco de análisis común e implicó una estrecha colaboración entre los investigadores y los...
Trade liberalization implies any change which leads a country's trade system toward neutrality in the sense of bringing its economy closer to the situation which would prevail if there were no governmental...