PREFACE -- Contents -- PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES AND METHODOLOGY -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Normative versus Positive Analysis -- 1.2 Analysis under Limited Data Availability -- 1.3 Policy and Political Economy -- 1.4 General-Equilibrium Analysis -- 1.5 The Structure of the Book -- 1.6 The Nature of the Results -- 1.7 Some Remarks on the Role of Theory -- 2. THE OBJECTIVES AND INSTRUMENTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY IN LDCs -- 2.1 Stated Objectives of Food-Related Policies -- 2.2 Putting Agricultural Policies in Perspective -- 2.3 The Economic Structure of LDCs -- 2.4 Concluding Remarks -- 3. AN APPROACH TO APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical Background -- 3.3 Applied Welfare Economics for LDCs -- PART II: INTER-SECTORAL TAXATION POLICIES -- 4. RURAL-URBAN PRICES IN OPEN ECONOMIES -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Simple Model -- 4.3 Analysis of Changes in Agricultural and Industrial Prices -- 4.4 Price-Productivity Effects -- Appendix -- 5. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN OPEN ECONOMIES -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Effects on the Investible Surplus of Changes in the Price Scissors -- 5.3 Welfare Effects of Changing the Price Scissors -- 5.4 Optimal Price Scissors -- 5.5 Concluding Remarks -- 6. THE PRICE SCISSORS IN CLOSED AND PARTIALLY CLOSED SOCIALIST ECONOMIES -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Model -- 6.3 Reform in the Price Scissors -- 6.4 Optimal Price Scissors -- 6.5 Economies with Traded and Non-Traded Goods -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 7. THE SOVIET INDUSTRIALIZATION DEBATE AND COLLECTIVIZATION -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Preobrazhensky's Propositions -- 7.3 The Correct Size of the Price Scissors -- 7.4 Collectivization -- 7.5 A Postscript on the Soviet Debate -- PART III: THE RURAL SECTOR -- 8. INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS WITHIN THE RURAL SECTOR.

8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Distributional Effects -- 8.3 Alternative Forms of Rural Organization -- 8.4 Effects of Wages and Prices on Rural Productivity -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks -- 9. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE RURAL SECTOR -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 A General Formulation -- 9.3 Informationally Parsimonious Pareto-Improving Price Reforms for Cash-Crops and Manufactured Inputs -- 9.4 Should Some Cash-Crops or Manufactured Inputs be Taxed and Others Subsidized? -- 9.5 Some Caveats -- Appendix -- PART IV: THE URBAN SECTOR -- 10. THE IMPACT OF URBAN WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT DETERMINATION ON TAXATION POLICIES -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 A General Formulation of Urban Wage-Determination -- 10.3 Urban-Rural Prices with an Endogenous Urban Wage -- 10.4 Price Scissors with Endogenous Wages -- 10.5 Endogenous Urban Wage versus Government-Controlled Urban Wage: Which is the Appropriate Assumption for LDCs? -- 10.6 Note on the Urban Wage Fixed in Terms of the Utility Level -- 10.7 Urban Unemployment -- 11. SOME ASPECTS OF THE WAGE-PRODUCTIVITY HYPOTHESIS THAT ARE RELEVANT FOR TAXATION ANALYSIS -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Why Do Wages and Prices Affect Productivity? -- 11.3 A Model of Wages, Prices, Productivity, and Unemployment -- 12. TAXES AND SUBSIDIES ON DIFFERENT GOODS IN THE URBAN SECTOR -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 A General Formulation -- 12.3 Generalizations -- Appendix -- 13. TAX POLICY IN THE PRESENCE OF MIGRATION AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The General Migration Relationship -- 13.3 Rural-Urban Prices -- 13.4 Pareto-Efficient Urban Taxes on Different Goods -- 13.5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- 14. TAXATION IN THE URBAN SECTOR: SOME ASPECTS OF THE UNDERLYING MODEL -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 A General ModeI of the Urban Sector -- 14.3 Inefficiency of Market Equilibrium.

14.4 Interdependence of Demand and Supply of Urban Labour -- 14.5 Concluding Remarks -- 15. THE SOCIAL COST OF LABOUR -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Model -- 15.3 Special Cases -- 15.4 Concluding Remarks -- 16. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 16.1 Some Key Issues -- 16.2 Political Economy Considerations -- 16.3 The Policy Predicament -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.