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| Stallmann, Judith I.; Deller, Steven C.; Shields, Martin. |
| The literature on the economic and fiscal impacts of in-migrating retirees on rural communities concentrates on the young, newly-retired. An issue not systematically addressed are the impacts on the communities as these retirees age. The Wisconsin Economic Impact Modeling System, a county level conjoined input-output/econometrics simulation model, is used to assess the impact of an aging rural population. Using data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Expenditure Survey, profiles of two household types are constructed and used to simulate the economic impact of an additional 500 elderly households into a small rural economy. Household types vary by age and, as a result, have different income levels and expenditure patterns. As... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Aging; Economic impacts; Development policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23987 |
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| Farzin, Y. Hossein. |
| This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general zero-net-aggregate-investment condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense of the maximin criterion of intergenerational justice is too demanding to be practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to the rich advanced industrial countries, but is too costly and ethically unreasonable for developing nations as it would act as an intergenerational poverty equalizer. The paper suggests that a compromise development policy that follows the optimal growth approach but... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Intergenerational equity; Optimality; Discounting; Development policy; International Development; Q01; Q56; O21; O13; D62; D63. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7447 |
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| Ranis, Gustav. |
| This paper makes an effort to trace the course of development thinking and associated development policy over the past six decades. Section I focuses on the early Post-War Consensus, with theory focused on extensions of classical dualism theory and policy concentrating on creating the pre-conditions for development. Section II traces the increasing awareness of the role of prices, a diminishing reliance on the developmentalist state and an increased reliance on structural adjustment lending associated with IFI conditionality. Section III illuminates the search for silver bullets which can be identified as key to the achievement of success. Finally, Section IV presents the authors assessment of where we are now and where we will, or should be, heading in... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Development theory; Development policy; International Development; O11; O20. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28528 |
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| Chamberlin, Jordan; Pender, John L.; Yu, Bingxin. |
| The choices that smallholder farmers are able to make are strongly conditioned by the geographic conditions in which they live. The importance of this fact for rural development strategy is not lost on policy makers. For example, the government of Ethiopia frequently frames policy discussions by broadly different geographical conditions of moisture availability, recognizing moisture reliable, drought prone and pastoralist areas. These conditions are seen as important criteria for determining the nature, extent and priority of development interventions for different parts of the country. There is considerable evidence, however, that other geographical factors also have important implications for rural development options. This paper uses agroecology, access... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Smallholders; Small farmers; Geographic conditions; Rural development strategies; Development policy; Agro-ecology; Market access; Livelihoods; Population density; International Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55410 |
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