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Marcella Alsan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the effect of the tsetse fly on african development
    The American Economic Review, 2015
    Co-Authors: Marcella Alsan
    Abstract:

    The TseTse ‡y is unique to Africa and transmits a parasite harmful to humans and lethal to livestock. This paper tests the hypothesis that the TseTse reduced the ability of Africans to generate an Agricultural Surplus historically. Ethnic groups inhabiting TseTse-suitable areas were less likely to use domesticated animals and the plow, less likely to be politically centralized and had a lower population density. These correlations are not found in the Tropics outside of Africa, where the ‡y does not exist.

Massoud Karshenas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • industrialization and Agricultural Surplus a comparative study of economic development in asia
    1995
    Co-Authors: Massoud Karshenas
    Abstract:

    Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. 1: Development Theory and Intersectoral Rsource Flows. 2: Definitions and Mechanisms of Surplus Transfer. 3: Determinants of Surplus Transfer and Policy Constraints. Part II: Intrsectoral Resource Flows in Historical perspective. 4: The Initial Conditions and Patterns of Development. 5: Intersectoral Resource Flows in India 1951-1970. 6: Intersectoral Resource Flows in Taiwan 1911-1960. 7: Intersectoral Resource Flows in Iran 1963-1977. 8: Intersectoral Resource Flows in Japan 1888-1937. 9: Intersectoral Resource Flows in China 1951-1980. 10: Intersectoral Resource Flows, Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Povrety

  • concepts and measurement of Agricultural Surplus a new accounting framework with application to iran
    The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1994
    Co-Authors: Massoud Karshenas
    Abstract:

    A new accounting framework for the measurement of intersectoral resource flows is presented. Different definitions of Agricultural Surplus are discussed and the conceptual and measurement problems involved in empirical estimation are examined. The framework is used to obtain new estimates of net Agricultural Surplus from the financial side for Iran. These estimates confirm the results of earlier partial studies, that there was a large and growing net inflow of resources into Iranian agriculture during the 1963—77 period. A comparison is made with the experience of Taiwan, and it is concluded that the problems of Iranian agriculture resulted from inefficient resource use within the sector rather than a resource squeeze from agriculture.

Fung Kwan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • re examination of the Surplus Agricultural labour in china
    China Agricultural Economic Review, 2013
    Co-Authors: Fung Kwan, Shuaihe Zhuo
    Abstract:

    Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization and measurement of Surplus labour.Design/methodology/approach – The Agricultural labour requirement function is estimated by the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) with China's prefecture‐level data. Surplus labour or inefficient labour is obtained by subtracting the required labour from the actual labour participated in agriculture.Findings – The authors' analysis indicates that the existing size of Agricultural Surplus labour in rural China is still significantly large with the continued practice of the household registration system and China's WTO membership. However, the size has been decreasing over the last decade.Research limitations/implications – Quality of data might affect the authors' estimates.Practical implications – The phenomenon of the coexistence of Surplus Agricultural labour and shortage of workers in non‐Agricultural production in urban China was dis...

  • re examination of the Surplus Agricultural labour in china
    Research Papers in Economics, 2012
    Co-Authors: Fung Kwan, Shuaihe Zhuo
    Abstract:

    This paper contributes to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization and measurement of Surplus labour. The Agricultural labour requirement function is estimated by the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) with China’s prefecture-level data. Surplus labour or inefficient labour is obtained by subtracting the required labour from the actual labour participated in agriculture. Our analysis indicates that the existing size of Agricultural Surplus labour in rural China is still significantly large with the continued practice of the household registration system and China’s WTO membership. However, the size has been decreasing over the last decade. We thus conclude that China is probably experiencing the second stage of the Lewis-Fei-Ranis dualistic economic framework.

  • Agricultural labour and the incidence of Surplus labour experience from china during reform
    Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2009
    Co-Authors: Fung Kwan
    Abstract:

    This paper contributes to the pool of studies of rural underemployment and revisits a number of estimates of Surplus Agricultural labour in China. The study is devoted to the conceptualization, identification and measurement of Surplus at regional, provincial and national levels by a stochastic frontier functional specification. The analysis indicates that the existing size of Agricultural Surplus labour is still significantly large with the continued practice of the household registration system and China's WTO membership.

Shuaihe Zhuo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • re examination of the Surplus Agricultural labour in china
    China Agricultural Economic Review, 2013
    Co-Authors: Fung Kwan, Shuaihe Zhuo
    Abstract:

    Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization and measurement of Surplus labour.Design/methodology/approach – The Agricultural labour requirement function is estimated by the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) with China's prefecture‐level data. Surplus labour or inefficient labour is obtained by subtracting the required labour from the actual labour participated in agriculture.Findings – The authors' analysis indicates that the existing size of Agricultural Surplus labour in rural China is still significantly large with the continued practice of the household registration system and China's WTO membership. However, the size has been decreasing over the last decade.Research limitations/implications – Quality of data might affect the authors' estimates.Practical implications – The phenomenon of the coexistence of Surplus Agricultural labour and shortage of workers in non‐Agricultural production in urban China was dis...

  • re examination of the Surplus Agricultural labour in china
    Research Papers in Economics, 2012
    Co-Authors: Fung Kwan, Shuaihe Zhuo
    Abstract:

    This paper contributes to the pool of studies of rural underemployment in China. It is devoted to the conceptualization and measurement of Surplus labour. The Agricultural labour requirement function is estimated by the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) with China’s prefecture-level data. Surplus labour or inefficient labour is obtained by subtracting the required labour from the actual labour participated in agriculture. Our analysis indicates that the existing size of Agricultural Surplus labour in rural China is still significantly large with the continued practice of the household registration system and China’s WTO membership. However, the size has been decreasing over the last decade. We thus conclude that China is probably experiencing the second stage of the Lewis-Fei-Ranis dualistic economic framework.

Gilles Spielvogel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Agricultural Surplus division of labour and the emergence of cities a spatial general equilibrium model
    Research Papers in Economics, 2003
    Co-Authors: Gilles Spielvogel
    Abstract:

    Dans ce papier, nous exposons les conditions economiques d’emergence des villes dans le cadre d’un modele d’equilibre general spatial. L’existence de rendements croissants bases sur la division du travail, de couts de transport et la presence eventuelle d’un Surplus agricole conduisent a differentes possibilites d’equilibre urbain. En raison de la contrainte de subsistance, il est possible qu’aucune ville ne soit soutenable si les couts de transport internes sont trop eleves. D’un autre cote, la contrainte d’emploi urbain debouche sur la saturation de tout ou partie du marche du travail urbain et a la persistance d’une pression migratoire entre campagne et ville. Par ailleurs, nous etudions les conditions de stabilite du systeme urbain monocentrique dans les differents cas d’equilibre.

  • Agricultural Surplus division of labour and the emergence of cities a spatial general equilibrium model
    Economics Papers from University Paris Dauphine, 2003
    Co-Authors: Gilles Spielvogel
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an Agricultural Surplus are enough to generate different possible urban equilibrium. A city may not be sustainable if internal transport costs are too high. On the other hand, a persistent migratory pressure may exist between the city and the surrounding rural hinterland if the urban labour market is saturated. In addition, we study the conditions of stability of the monocentric equilibrium in the different cases.