This thesis explores the phenomenon of women's informal industrial employment in small-scale, poorly regulated, and labor-intensive textile and garment manufacturing sectors in Egypt. The study examines the macro- and micro context factors that influence the availability of rura…
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The research question of this study is the following: does the standard of living in developing countries decline due to their trade with industrial countries? In the study of this question, static and dynamic versions of a model developed by Graciela Chichilnisky are specified …
This study has examined the organizational forms and changes in three different agricultural extension models being implemented in Egypt. These models are the Research, Development, and Diffusion (RDD) model; the Training and Visit (T&V) model; and the Farming System, Research a…
This study examines the efficiency performance of the industrial timber plantation in Indonesia using panel data from 1994 to 1998. Thirty-two companies from four provinces were involved in this study. Empirical results from the stochastic frontier model showed that the level of…
The protracted Arab-Israeli conflict has adversely affected the economic, social, and political development in the Middle East. In spite of the centrality of political considerations, it is important to look at the potential for trade and other transactions between the countries…
Sudanese irrigated agriculture faces water shortages if current methods of water use continue. This dissertation examines how Sudan can allocate its water share of 20.5 milliard cubic meters (MM\sp3) (7.6 MM\sp3 for the Gezira Scheme) stipulated in the 1959 Nile Waters Agreement…
This study analyzed the productivity, production technology, and technical efficiency of cultured shrimp production in Asia using data from Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific. Based on the farm-level information, partial productivity ratios and dual cost total factor…
This dissertation studies the social effects of macroeconomic shocks and examines various ways to minimize unintended social consequences. In Part I, we study the impact of the Asian Crisis on land clearing behavior. Then, in Part II, we discuss how to design development interve…
This study examines the nature and dynamics of land tenure in two communities of rural Senegal. Tenure change is critical to debates about economic development in Africa. Some blame customary tenure's communal character and inflexibility for discouraging agricultural investment …
The Government of Senegal is attempting to liberalize the groundnut market. In the past, this market was highly regulated with government-set producer prices, groundnut oil processing mills owned by parastatals, and requirements that all groundnuts be sold to these quasi-governm…
The world is facing a growing challenge in maintaining water quality and meeting increasing demands for water resources. This trend is evident in the Middle East where water scarcity has reached critical levels. To cope with shortage, many Middle Eastern countries are exploring …
The goal of feed formulation should be to maximize profit rather than minimize feeding cost. Traditionally, nutritionists formulate least-cost diets with fixed nutrient levels and assume that performance will be maximized. A series of biological and economic studies were carried…
In agricultural labor exchange, farmers temporarily pool their labor into teams and complete a task on each team member's plot in succession. Labor time is exchanged between team members under strict reciprocity and without pay. The use of agricultural labor exchange in developi…
Pakistan is currently facing large fiscal deficits. The fiscal deficit of the federal and provincial governments averaged about 6.5 percent of GNP during 1980s. Pakistan is increasingly a net importer of wheat and the cost of the wheat price policy has an important impact on the…
Land degradation, mainly in the form of soil erosion, constitutes the basis for the problems of the low productivity and sluggish growth of Ethiopian agriculture. A national campaign against land degradation has been going on in the country for more than twenty-five years. Howev…
Using survey data on tenure and crop production on individual fields in Niger, this dissertation analyzes the effects of land tenure on the principal investment in agricultural intensification, namely manure. An evaluation of indigenous land rights points to two features of fiel…
The causal relationship between economic development and demographic transition has remained controversial. Some authors believe that there is no relation; some others believe that development leads to demographic transition but can not provide satisfactory explanations. In this…
Both modernization and agrarian theories tend to view rural change as resulting primarily from the operation of external forces, in the form of state intervention or market pressures. Most analyses of agricultural and rural restructuring also focus on the impact of external inte…
This project explores innovative peasant responses to capitalist incorporation and state consolidation in the Siin region of Senegal's Peanut Basin. This project weaves archival, ethnographic, and quantitative survey research, as well as observation of land dispute resolution, i…