Village Economies by J Edward Taylor
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.
"..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 Economics
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521550123 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521550122 |
| Title | Village Economies |
| Author | J Edward Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1996-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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