Every year more than 6 million tons of coffee is produced in different parts of the world, mainly in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Because there is little scope for economies of scale in coffee ...

Chapter 1: In the introductory chapter, I place my thesis in an empirical research tradition going back to the mid-19S0s, investigating the economics of technological change. Key issues have been the private and social returns ...

In assessing the present situation numerous influential international researchers have taken the view that macroeconomic researchers today largely have converged on the use of its methodology. For the study on economic ...