Cassava : towards the year 2000
Development of agriculture in Ethiopia since the 1975 land reform
This paper mainly focusses 011 a macro review of the general course of Ethiopian agricultural development since the land reform of 1975. The food production has lagged behind the population growth - 3 percent population growth against 1.8 percent food production between 1970 and 1983. Recently the situation has, perhaps, further deteriorated. 71 pe...
Some remarks on the Mexican greenhouse flower industry : two papers
Structure of the French Armament Industry and the profiles of its main armament companies
L’industrie d’armement en France a toujours été centralisée, avec des champions nationaux, relativement performants à l’exportation. Il n’y a normalement pas de compétition entre les secteurs publics et privés. La Délégation générale à l’Armement est le tuteur de l’industrie de défense. Il n’y a en général aucune discrimination pour les entreprises...
Shocks externos y política económica: el caso peruano 1979-1982
Países como los nuestros, donde una parte muy importante de sus exportaciones están compuestas por productos primarios, están expuestos a fuertes variaciones en los precios de los mismos, es decir, a shocks externos. Entonces, el presente artículo tratará de mostrar los posibles efectos de un shock externo positivo (centrándose en los temporales) s...
De afzetperspectieven van Nederlands tamme-eendevlees op middellange termijn
Trends in agro-byproducts and their feeding potential in sub-Saharan Africa
Reviews macro-data on production and utilization of major agro-industrial byproducts in sub-Saharan Africa with, particularly attention on those involved in international trade; viz, molasses, groundnut cake, cottonseed cake, sunflower seed cake, palm kernel cake and fishmeal. Evaluates their feeding potential in relation to their nutritive values ...
Impact of livestock pricing policies on meat and milk output in selected sub-Saharan African countries
Reviews, analyses and presents evidence concerning the effects of livestock pricing policies on production incentives in a sample of sub-Saharan countries including Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan and Zimbabwe - selected on the basis of their livestock population, production, trade and consumption. Examines the growth and performance ...
Política cambiaria en el Perú: entre el sesgo pro-exportador y la política anti-inflacionaria
In this article, the author states how two types of exchange policies (crawling peg with a parity criterion and a long period-fixed exchange rate), have influenced the evolution of the effective real exchange rate during the last four years. Four doing this, two indicators are used: the induced distortion and the additional variability. / En este a...
The main characteristics of French arms industry
What are the main characteristics of French arms industries? It is possible to mention the relations between lead companies and their suppliers, technologies transfers, high R&D costs, rapidly advancing technologies, relatively low price elasticity of demand, sharply limited spin-off opportunities in the short run, moderate profit margin, the const...
