Sources of Scale Economies: Sugar Production in Less Developed

Michael Tribe and R L W Alpine

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1987, vol. 49, issue 2, 209-26

Abstract: This article is concerned with three specific issues in the cane sugar manufacturing industry as a case study of scale economies in less developed countries: assessing the strength of scale economies, identifying the principal sources of scale economies, and comparing the shape of the long-run average cost curve for five different countries in association with an examination of the significance of the "minimum economic size" criterion. The article addresses itself to these issues in a manner which might usefully be employed more widely in policy-related economic analysis in less developed countries. Copyright 1987 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Date: 1987
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