Whether the negative relationship between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature holds in Africa is of considerable policy relevance. This paper revisits this issue and...
This paper estimates the contribution of child labor to the formation of household farm income in rural enterprises. The contribution to household income from the employment of children comes either from...
What is the effect of trade liberalization on households in developing countries? To what extent do the poor benefit when local markets are made more accommodative to international trade? The author empirically...
This note has been drawn from a number of texts including "The Value of Time In Economic Evaluation of Transport Projects" (Gwilliam, 1997), "Values of Travel Time Savings in the UK - Summary and Conclusions"...
A striking feature of developing economies is the large proportion of the work force that is self employed. Lack of widespread labor market participation in the agricultural sector can pose a major obstacle...
This book examines the numerous important contributions to the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis, consolidating much of the recent work in this area and focusing on aspects that continue to...
This paper discusses the use and usefulness of social cost-benefit analysis. It briefly recalls the main features of the procedures put forward in the book by the authors and addresses some of the issues...
Wood and charcoal provide most of the energy used in developing countries. The combination of fast-growing populations and shrinking forest resources causes fuelwood consumption to exceed sustainable yields...
This paper proposes a simple decomposition of the widely used DRC measure of international competitiveness into three distinct elements: (1) changes in international prices, (2) changes in production techniques...
The welfare costs of intervention in international trade are firmly established theoretically and increasingly well-documented empirically. In addressing the problems of speed and order of liberalization...
This paper is a simple description of economic cost-benefit analysis coupled with a discussion of its applicability to project appraisal in China. It is concerned mainly with methods of estimating shadow...
For purposes of social cost-benefit analysis, a project may be viewed as a disturbance to the economy, displacing it from some initial equilibrium to a new one. But the new configuration will depend on...
This paper presents estimates of efficiency and social accounting prices for commodities and factors of production in Egypt which are appropriate for the period 1979-1985. Shadow price estimates for commodities...
A survey of powerlooms and handlooms was conducted in the provincial town of Mau, in Easter Uttar Pradesh, which is essentially a center of production and trade in textiles. There are a large number of...
Given the long gestation period of rubber plantations, it is still too early to make definite comments on the success of the Grand Bereby Rubber Estate Project for the Ivory Coast. Currently, the program...
A dual labor market, in which the wage rate in one sector of the economy exceeds the marginal productivity of labor in another, has been a prominent feature in many models of economic development. Two...
The analytical and empirical basis for the estimation of shadow prices, which may be used for the evaluation of projects in Turkey in the next five years, are described. Shadow prices are defined as the...
The value of the dual economy model for economic development is considered. A dual labor market, in which the wage rate in one sector of the economy exceeds the marginal productivity of labor in another...
The purpose of this paper is to explain the calculation of shadow prices at the national level using the so-called Input-Output Table technique. In contrast to previous estimates of shadow prices in World...
This paper demonstrates the role of shadow pricing in country economic analysis. It is argued that: first, shadow prices serve as summary measures which help the country economist to channel the substance...