Cash Crop Production, Food Price Volatility, and Rural Market Integration in the Third World

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Fafchamps
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Third World ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Food Price ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rural Market ◽  
The Third World

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-213
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Third World ◽  
Export Price ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Dutch Disease ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

Kris James Mitchener of Santa Clara University and NBER reviews “Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind” by Jeffrey G. Williamson. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the great divergence between the third world and the postindustrial West in terms of long-standing differences in trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. Discusses when the third world fell behind; the first global century up to 1913; the biggest third world terms of trade boom ever; the economics of third world growth engines and Dutch diseases; measuring third world deindustrialization and Dutch disease; an Asian deindustrialization illustration--an Indian paradox; a Middle East deindustrialization illustration--Ottoman problems; a Latin American deindustrialization illustration--Mexican exceptionalism; whether rising third world inequality during the trade boom mattered; export price volatility--another drag on third world growth; the globalization and great divergence connection; better late than never--the spread of industrialization to the poor periphery; policy response--what they did and what they should have done; and morals of the story. Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Index.

Agricultural Production in the Third World - a Challenge for Natural Pest Control

1990 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. W. Hussey
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Third World ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
The Third ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Face ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Natural Pest Control

SUMMARYPrevention of the enormous losses of crop production in the Third World, both before and after harvest, would make a substantial contribution to the survival and well-being of countless small fanners. Many attempts to reduce the scale of pest attacks by facilitating the purchase of pesticides and fertilizers have failed in the face of maladministration, mistrust, primitive conditions and ignorance. Yet, despite the difficulties, these fanners have evolved a pattern and practice of production which incorporates many positive attributes which have only recently been appreciated by western scientists. Attention is drawn to some of these methods and also to the benefits and limitations of both classical and manipulated biological control. It is concluded that further improvements depend on the ability of entomologists to adapt some of the concepts widely used in China to utilize scientific techniques within a socio-economic structure where even the plastic bag must be regarded as high technology.

Globalisation and Economic Growth in the Third World: Some Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Mexico

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS ALEJANDRO PONZIO
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Bourbon Reforms ◽  
The Third World

This article studies the connection between globalisation and economic growth in eighteenth-century Mexico. This was a period of globalisation in Mexico, characterised by market integration and growth in international trade. I estimate economic growth at that time and explore its relationship with the dominant export of the epoch, silver. The results show that Mexico experienced rapid economic growth in the eighteenth century and, furthermore, that exports caused that growth. During the period of Bourbon reforms economic growth improved, but not dramatically. Mining ceased to be the engine of growth by the end of the century.

Population Movements and the Third World

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
Bill Gould
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Development and Underdevelopment: A Profile of the Third World

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-509
Author(s):  
D.R. Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Power for development. Electricity in the Third World

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Mohan Munasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Health Informatics Education in the Third World

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 270-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Rienhoff
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Third World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Abstract:The state of the art is summarized showing many efforts but only few results which can serve as demonstration examples for developing countries. Education in health informatics in developing countries is still mainly dealing with the type of health informatics known from the industrialized world. Educational tools or curricula geared to the matter of development are rarely to be found. Some WHO activities suggest that it is time for a collaboration network to derive tools and curricula within the next decade.

Alkohol im Tank – Bio-Kraftstoffe und die Grenzen moderner Mobilität

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Hartwig Berger
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The article discusses the future of mobility in the light of energy resources. Fossil fuel will not be available for a long time - not to mention its growing environmental and political conflicts. In analysing the potential of biofuel it is argued that the high demands of modern mobility can hardly be fulfilled in the future. Furthermore, the change into using biofuel will probably lead to increasing conflicts between the fuel market and the food market, as well as to conflicts with regional agricultural networks in the third world. Petrol imperialism might be replaced by bio imperialism. Therefore, mobility on a solar base pursues a double strategy of raising efficiency on the one hand and strongly reducing mobility itself on the other.

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

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