Most of the world's population and the vast majority of the world's poor live and work in villages. Their activities are usually centered in households, but interactions among households shape the impacts of policy, market, and environmental changes on rural production, incomes, employment, and migration. This book presents a new generation of villagewide economic modeling designed to capture these interactions when assessing the impacts of policy, market and environmental changes on rural economies in less-developed countries. The authors present a general framework for modeling village economies based on computable general-equilibrium techniques, estimate models for villages and a village-town in five different countries, and use these models to conduct a series of comparative experiments.

Product Description: This is the first of two volumes bringing together Irma Adelman's contributions to development economics. It features her seminal papers on development strategies and the role of institutions in economic development.

Product Description: This is the second of two volumes bringing together Irma Adelman's contributions to development economics. It includes pioneering applications of econometrics, as well as papers on the poverty and income distribution implications of growth and development.

Product Description: Book by Morris, Professor Cynthia, Adelman, Ms. Irma

Exposes the failure of conventional development programs to increase the living standards and political participation of the poor in seventy-four countries

Book by Adelman, Irma