Women in Asia play a major role in rice cultivation. New rice technologies have had and will
continue to have a substantial impact on women's income earning opportunities both within …

Increased labor absorption in agriculture has been widely held to be the key to solving
unemployment problems in developing Asia, following the historical experience of East …

Self-sufficiency has been a major policy concern in Indonesia for several centuries, although
not until 1945 was this conceived in terms of food or rice self-sufficiency, In colonial times …

This article asserts that the" Asian model" of egalitarian agricultural development is based
on the experience of only very few Asian countries, especially Taiwan. In fact, the …

This article seeks to provide a new analytical framework based on factor endowments to
understand growth in rural economies without structural transformation. More concretely, it …

During the past two decades off-farm and other non-agricultural employment has increased
rapidly in rural Java mainly due to an increase infernale employment in petty trade. After a …

Professor Egbert de Vries is one of the few former colonial civil servants who can provide
first hand information about the economic situation in Indonesia during the colonial era …

This paper presents a review of the findings of the work carried out by the ARTEP on labour
absorption in agriculture. The studies were prepared within the framework of a major project …

This paper briefly traces the historical evolution of weed control practices in Asia and
examines alternative techniques for weed control, then focuses on the use of human labor in …

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist das Ergebnis intensiver theoretischer und empirischer Studien zur
Tourismusentwicklung in Entwicklungsländern (aufgezeigt am Beispiel von Nordsumatra …