
Village Economies
The Design, Estimation, and Use of Villagewide Economic Models
Cambridge University Press
Published on 13. November 1996
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-521-55012-3 (ISBN)
Description
Most of the world's population and the vast majority of the world's poor live and work in villages. Their activities are usually centred 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 generation of villagewide economic modelling 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 modelling 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. The findings offer explanations for some paradoxical outcomes of exogenous shocks as their influence winds its way through rural economies, and they underline the importance of adopting a local economy-wide perspective when designing development policies.
Reviews / Votes
"...the book will be certainly useful for all those who are involved in understanding the micro-level perspective of village economies and brings out specifically the policy framework based on cross activity linkages." Indian Journal of Agricultural EconomicsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
90 Tables, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
609 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-55012-3 (9780521550123)
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The Design, Estimation, and Use of Villagewide Economic Models
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12/2006
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University of California, Davis
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Content
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Modeling village economies; 3. The village economy and tenure security in West Africa: a Sengalese village SAM Elise H. Golan; 4. Production and distribution in a dry-land village economy Shankar Subramanian; 5. Migration and the changing structure of a Mexican village economy; 6. Economic linkages in a small regional economy: the case of Kutus Region, Kenya Blane D. Lewis and Erik Thorbecke; 7. Household nutrition and economic linkages: a village social accounting matrix for West Java, Indonesia Katherine Ralston; 8. The village CGE: basic model and estimation; 9. Policy simulations; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.