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Working Papers

2009

1. Bringing Growth Theory "Down to Earth"
   Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations
2. Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
3. Pollution and the State: The Role of the Structure of Government
   2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society View citations
4. The Great Financial Crisis, Commodity Prices and Environmental Limits
   Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

2008

5. "Sustainable" Economic Growth: The Ominous Potency of Structural Change
   Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
6. Trade and the Environment
   Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations
7. When Government Spending Serves the Elites: Consequences for Economic Growth in a Context of Market Imperfections
   Working Papers, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics View citations

2006

8. Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth: the public expenditure connection
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

2005

9. Why governments should stopnon-social subsidies: measuring their consequences for rural Latin America
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

2004

10. Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces
    Discussion Papers, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Environment and Development Economics (2008)
11. The Structure of Public Expenditures, Agricultural Income and Rural Poverty: Evidence from 10 Latin American countries
    Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings, Econometric Society

2003

12. SUSTAINABILITY WITH UNBALANCED GROWTH: THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE
    Working Papers, University of British Columbia, Food and Resource Economics View citations

2001

13. GROWTH, POVERTY AND ASSET ALLOCATION: THE ROLE OF THE STATE
    Discussion Papers, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF) View citations

1999

14. FIGHTING RURAL POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: NEW EVIDENCE AND POLICY
    1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations

1998

15. Addressing the education puzzle: the distribution of education and economic reform
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

1995

16. Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture: how farmers'wealth affects supply response
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
17. Determinants Of Rural Poverty: A Quantitative
    Reports, World Bank Latin America and the Caribean Region Department
18. Migration and the skill composition of the labor force: the impact of trade liberalization in developing countries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

1991

19. How trade and economic policies affect agriculture: a framework for analysis applied to Tanzania and Malawi
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
20. How trade and macroeconomic policies affect economic growth and capital accumulation in developing countries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
21. Microeconomic distortions: static losses and their effect on the efficiency of investment
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

1990

22. Do labor market distortions cause overvaluation and rigidity of the real exchange rate?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

1989

23. Macroeconomic adjustment and the labor market in four Latin American countries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
24. Trade restrictions with imported intermediate inputs: when does the trade balance improve?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1990)

1988

25. Imports and growth in Africa
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
26. Wage responsiveness and labor market disequilibrium
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

Journal Articles

2008

1. Chile: The Unbearable Burden of Inequality
   World Development, 2008, 36, (12), 2679-2695 View citations
2. Exploiting common resources with capital-intensive technologies: the role of external forces
   Environment and Development Economics, 2008, 13, (05), 565-589
   See also Working Paper (2004)

2007

3. Agricultural growth and poverty in an archetypical middle income country: Chile 1987-2003
   Agricultural Economics, 2007, 36, (2), 191-202 View citations
4. Fiscal policies in highly unequal societies: implications for agricultural growth
   The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, 2007, 4, (1), 123-145
5. On the gains of committing to inefficiency: Corruption, deforestation and low land productivity in Latin America
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007, 54, (3), 277-295 View citations
6. Should governments stop subsidies to private goods? Evidence from rural Latin America
   Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91, (5-6), 1071-1094 View citations
7. Structural change and sustainable development
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007, 53, (3), 307-322 View citations

2006

8. Community–Industry Contracting over Natural Resource use in a Context of Weak Property Rights: The Case of Indonesia
   Environmental & Resource Economics, 2006, 33, (1), 73-93

2005

9. Trade Policies, Economic Growth, and the Direct Causes of Deforestation
   Land Economics, 2005, 81, (2)
10. Under-investing in public goods: evidence, causes, and consequences for agricultural development, equity, and the environment
    Agricultural Economics, 2005, 32, (s1), 211-224

2004

11. Poverty and Agricultural Growth: Chile in the 1990s
    eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, 2004, 1, (1) View citations
    Also in The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, 2004, 1, (1), 6-24 (2004)

2003

12. The Policy Roots of Socioeconomic Stagnation and Environmental Implosion: Latin America 1950-2000
    World Development, 2003, 31, (2), 259-280 View citations

2000

13. Corruption, Pollution, and the Kuznets Environment Curve
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2000, 40, (2), 137-150 View citations
14. Globalisation and rural poverty in Latin America: modelling the links to soil degradation
    International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2000, 3, (2), 159-169

1999

15. A Note on Farmers' Retirement and Succession Considerations: Evidence from a Household Survey
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 50, (1), 154-162 View citations

1998

16. Agricultural Intensification, Common Property Resources and the Farm-Household
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 1998, 11, (3), 443-458
17. Migration and the Skill composition of the Labor Force: The Impact of Trade Liberalization in LDCs
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1998, 31, (2), 318-336 View citations
18. The Tragedy of the Commons in Cote d'Ivoire Agriculture: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Evaluating Trade Policies
    World Bank Economic Review, 1998, 12, (1), 105-31 View citations

1997

19. Environmental externalities in traditional agriculture and the impact of trade liberalization: the case of Ghana
    Journal of Development Economics, 1997, 53, (1), 17-39 View citations

1996

20. Determinantes de la Pobreza Rural en Chile: Programas Públicos de Extensión y Crédito y Otros Factores
    Cuadernos de Economía (Latin American Journal of Economics), 1996, 33, (100), 321-343
21. Environmental sustainability and poverty in Belize: a policy paper
    Environment and Development Economics, 1996, 1, (03), 289-307

1995

22. Synergy and investment efficiency effects of trade and labor market distortions
    European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (7), 1321-1344

1994

23. "Moderate" Minimum wages are likely to benefit workers after all: a general equilibrium view
    Estudios de Economia, 1994, 21, (esp Year 1994), 2-24
24. The Environment as a Factor of Production: The Effects of Economic Growth and Trade Liberalization
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1994, 27, (2), 163-184 View citations
25. Transference costs and intersectoral mobility: explaining income differentials affecting the agricultural sector
    Estudios de Economia, 1994, 21, (2 Year 1994), 257-276

1993

26. Fixed price controls and ad valorem distortions in an open economy
    Economics Letters, 1993, 41, (3), 287-292
27. Public investment and real-price supports
    Journal of Public Economics, 1993, 52, (1), 73-82 View citations

1992

28. Distorsiones del Mercado Laboral y la Eficacia de las Políticas Cambiarias
    Cuadernos de Economía (Latin American Journal of Economics), 1992, 29, (88), 387-408
29. On the Theory of Piecemeal Tariff Reform: The Case of Pure Imported Intermediate Inputs
    American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (3), 615-25 View citations

1991

30. Dual economic growth in poor tropical areas
    Journal of Development Economics, 1991, 36, (2), 189-211 View citations
31. Temporary import and export quotas and the current account
    Journal of International Economics, 1991, 31, (3-4), 371-381

1990

32. Import Dependency and Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa
    World Bank Economic Review, 1990, 4, (2), 195-207 View citations
33. Temporary trade taxes, welfare and the current account
    Economics Letters, 1990, 33, (4), 347-351
34. Trade restrictions with imported intermediate inputs: When does the trade balance improve?
    Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 34, (1-2), 329-338 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1989)

1988

35. Desempleo y la estructura de los mercados laborales en Colombia
    Estudios de Economia, 1988, 15, (1 Year 1988), 142-156

1985

36. Structural Implications of a Class of Flexible Functional Forms for Profit Functions
    International Economic Review, 1985, 26, (3), 593-601 View citations

1984

37. A GENERAL, DYNAMIC, SUPPLY-RESPONSE MODEL
    Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1984, 13, (2) View citations
38. Estimating labor supply and production decisions of self-employed farm producers
    European Economic Review, 1984, 24, (1), 61-82 View citations

1982

39. APPLICATIONS OF DUALITY THEORY TO AGRICULTURE
    Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1982, 07, (02) View citations

Chapters

2002

1. The economics of agriculture in developing countries: The role of the environment
   Chapter 22 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 2, Part 1, pp 1213-1247 View citations