Finn Tarp

TL;DR: In this article, a set of high-quality academic studies are presented to answer key research questions of importance to understand agricultural development and change in developing country settings using the case of Vietnam, which provides comprehensive analytical contributions, that rely on detailed microdata, to understand crucial topics within the fields of agricultural and development economics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that developing countries differ considerably from their developed counterparts when focus is on the nature and characteristics of short-run macroeconomic fluctuations, and illustrate the critical importance of understanding business regularities as a stepping-stone in the process of designing appropriate stabilization policy and macroeconomic management in developing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify key causal factors behind farmers' marketing decisions in Mozambique and identify the conditions of high risk, low productivity and low capital endowments of poor farmers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a volume of almost 15 years of study and policy work using the Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) data, in an effort to bring out the essential rural micro-economic characteristics and insights of a dynamic South-east Asian economy in transition from a centrally planned towards a more market based economy.