Markets are increasingly seen as vehicles to solve problems in developing countries. For example, improvements in market performance make potentially important contributions to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Access of smallholders to well-functioning markets is incr…
Explores economic, social and political developments in Brazil from the 1950s to the 1990s and discusses whether the country is ready to assume a place among first world nations. Identifies key policy changes to be addressed.
Java is one of the world's most densely populated agricultural regions. Since the publication of Clifford Geertz's Agricultural Involution, scholars have viewed mounting demographic pressure on limited land resources as the driving force behind agrarian change on the island. Thi…
