The historical experience of many developing countries show that many developing world has not paid enough attention and is not giving serious thought to its agricultural sector. In fact, nearly all the countries that have “undervalued” their agricultural sectors not only failed to grow rapidly, but they all encountered domestic food shortages, balance of payment crisis and some sort of politic...

increasing non-oil exporting is among the most important concerns for iran. software industry is among the knowledge based and profitable ones. identification of factors affecting export performance of software developers can improve planning that in turn results in increasing software export. in this research a model consisting of seven important variables in software industries including: com...

Along with maize and cassava, common bean is a critical component of diets for many of the developing countries in the world. Beans are an important source of family income and a critical component of the daily diet within African countries where the population is projected to double by 2020. As such, it is the most important edible food legume in the world’s diet. It represents 50% of the grai...

The agricultural production system in Sri Lanka consists of two traditional and well-defined components. One is the plantation section, established during the colonial period, consisting of large units, and producing perennial crops such as coffee, tea, rubber, and coconut mainly for export. The other is the smallholder sector comprised of small farms which produce most of the country’s rice, v...

A number of stylized facts have been documented about the extensive margin of trade— whether to export or not, and, if so, how many products to how many destinations. We note that some of the reported facts would be expected to arise if exports shipments were randomly allocated across categories (e.g., product codes, destination countries). ey are, thus, not informative of the underlying econom...