Contemporary economic issues : proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of the International Economic Association, Tunis : volume 2. labour, food and poverty

Annotation An overview of many currently topical issues around food and agriculture, with particular emphasis on their implications for development. These include Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel's discussion of nutritional standards and the implications of new theories of evolution in assessing the extent of malnutrition. Historical analysis informs contemporary surveys, including Yair Mundlak's comparison of the postwar record of 130 countries in agricultural technology and outputs. The important implications of labour markets, income distributions and the impact of welfare states on these issues are considered by a number of papers. The contributors include many leading academics from North America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Israel Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Incentives in the Welfare State: Lessons for Would-be Welfare States....Pages 3-24 Income Distribution Theory: A Survey of Selected Recent Contributions....Pages 25-38 The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economies: Where Do We Stand?....Pages 39-61 Openness and Within-Country Inequality....Pages 63-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Does History have Useful Economics? Lessons from Europe’s Golden Age (1950–73)....Pages 83-101 Have the Extent and the Impact of Chronic Malnutrition been Underestimated? A Theory of Technophysio Evolution and its Implications for Nutritional Standards....Pages 103-131 On the Optimal Duration of Migration....Pages 133-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Agricultural Development: Issues, Evidence and Consequences....Pages 149-172 Incentive Distortions in Developing Agriculture in South Africa and Implications for Tenure Reform....Pages 173-191 Agriculture in Transition: Land Reform in Former Socialist Countries....Pages 193-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Infrastructure: The Contribution of Benchmarking and Economic Analysis to the Reform of the Energy, Water and Transport Sectors....Pages 213-242 Economic Regulation and Political Influence....Pages 243-258 "Exploring women's narratives from an innovative feminist perspective, Female Stories, Female Bodies combines theory and textual commentary in a wide-ranging interrogation of representation and identity, gender and genre. Cultural critic Lidia Curti takes us through a diverse range of texts in a broad spectrum of media and genres, drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, postmodern, and postcolonial theory in a challenging and rigorous discussion of such themes as hybridity and monstrosity, the male and female gaze, melancholia, desire, and paranoia. From Angela Carter and Toni Morrison to Jeanette Winterson and Jane Bowles, from daytime t.v. to Shakespearean drama, Curti examines variegated 'textualities' in search of the 'spaces and times' that narrative occupies in women's lives. Following de Certeau's dictum that 'our stories order our world, providing the mimetic and mythical structures for experience, ' she argues that women must retrace their way in the interminable plurality of female narrative texts as a strategy for resisting the 'official' closure of female identity. Female Stories, Female Bodies takes us on such a journey, bringing the body of female narrative to bear on the lived experiences of women everywhere"--Page 4 of cover This is a guide to the experiences of economic reform since the Second World War and of system reform and economic integration across the world in the past decade. The first part of the book examines why only a small number of developing countries have succeeded in their modernization attempts this century. What lessons can be learned from the successes of the East Asian NIEs and failures of other economies to emulate them? The very different experiences of the transition to market economies in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and China is the focus of the next section, with comparisons drawn to the Latin American reform experience, especially in Chile. The effects of economic integration schemes are examined in the final section, with case-studies of Tunisia and Morocco's Free Trade Agreements with the EU, and economic integration and the Arab-Israeli peace process. This interdisciplinary book explores women's narratives in a wide variety of media and genre, from soap opera and film to the post-modern novel and Shakespearian drama. Adopting an innovative feminist perspective, it focuses particularly on the themes of hybridity and monstrosity in language and the body. In doing so, it raises issues to do with closure and temporal and spatial dislocation, drawing on themes of passion, paranoia and desire. At first sight, this volume, which contains chapters covering topics ranging from economic methodology through central bank independence to pension systems, might be viewed as a potpourri of largely unrelated issues. Yet these chapters, written by leading researchers in their respective fields, dispel this notion, illustrating the ongoing merger process between hitherto quite separate economic sub-disciplines. V. 1. Regional Experience And System Reform / Edited By Justin Yifu Lin -- V. 2. Labour, Food And Poverty / Edited By Yair Mundlak -- V. 3. Trade, Payments And Debt / Edited By Daniel Cohen -- V. 4. Economic Behaviour And Design / Edited By Murat R. Sertel -- V. 5. Macroeconomics And Finance / Edited By Holger Wolf. Congress Editor,michael Bruno. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Societies at all levels of development search continuously for policies that will facilitate growth and at the same time will allow all members of society to benefit from the fruits of growth. In this book, contributors explore the leading role taken on by the state through legislation, taxation and expenditure programs. v. 1. Regional experiences and system reform / edited by Justin Yifu Lin v. 2. Labour, food and poverty / edited by Yair Mundlak v. 3. Trade, payments and debt / edited by Daniel Cohen v. 4. Economic behaviour and design / edited by Murat Setel v. 5. Macroeconomics and finance / edited by Holger Wolf. v. 1. Regional experience and system reform v. 2. Labour, food and poverty / edited by Yair Mundlak v. 3. Trade, payments and debt / edited by Daniel Cohen v. 4. Economic behaviour and design / edited by Murat R. Sertel v. 5. Macroeconomics and finance / edited by Holger C. Wolf.