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Economics of informal milk producing units in Guwahati city
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Les petits producteurs, les villes et le lait : défis du ravitaillement alimentaire dans les Andes du nord de l'Equateur
TL;DR: In this paper, a systeme d'approvisionnement urbain en produits laitiers in the Andes du Nord en Equateur, avec une etude de la structure and du fonctionnement, is described.
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Poverty, Inequality, and Development: Inequality and development
TL;DR: The authors summarizes the available empirical evidence on the relationship between economic inequality and development and decomposes LDC inequality, analyzing various statistical approaches for ascertaining the sources of inequality within a country at a single point in time and reviewing the major results and patterns emerging from empirical research.
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The mechanics of economic development
Abstract: This paper considers the prospects for constructing a neoclassical theory of growth and international trade that is consistent with some of the main features of economic development. Three models are considered and compared to evidence: a model emphasizing physical capital accumulation and technological change, a model emphasizing human capital accumulation through schooling, and a model emphasizing specialized human capital accumulation through learning-by-doing.
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Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
TL;DR: In Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Frank Knight explored the riddle of profitability in a competitive market profit should not be possible under competitive conditions, as the entry of new entrepreneurs would drive prices down and nullify margins, however evidence abounds of competitive yet profitable markets as mentioned in this paper.
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Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a different framework for solving problems of distribution accumulation and growth first in a closed and then in an open economy, where the assumption of an unlimited labor supply is used.
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A model of labor migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries.
TL;DR: In this paper, an economic behavioral model of rural urban migration is formulated which represents a realistic modification and extension of the simple wage differential approach commonly found in the literature and this probablistic approach is incorporated into a rigorous model of the determinants of urban labor demand and supply which when given values for the crucial parameters can be used among other things to estimate the equilibrium proportion of the urban labor force that is not absorbed by the modern industrial economy.