Bibliographical Note to Chapter 10

Literature concerning the conduct of marketing and processing surveys is even less common than farm survey literature. On agroindustrial activities and their linkages to farm activity generally, see James E. Austin, Agroindustrial Project Analysis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981). J. Price Gittinger, Economic Analysis of Agricultural Projects, 2d ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), chap. 5, provides a detailed discussion of the use of accounting data to evaluate large-scale processing firms. The estimation of transportation project costs is discussed in Hans A. Adler, Economic Appraisal of Transport Projects: A Manual with Case Studies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). Discussion germane to both marketing and processing surveys is provided in Walter P. Falcon, William O. Jones, and Scott R. Pearson et al., The Cassava Economy of Java (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984).

One of the earliest works on developing country protection of agroindustrial and other industries is Stephen R. Lewis and Stephen E. Guisinger, "Measuring Protection in a Developing Country: The Case of Pakistan," Journal of Political Economy 76 (December 1968): 1170-98. A number of studies were conducted in the 1970s; perhaps the broadest group is the twelve-volume set (including ten country studies) by Jagdish Bhagwati and Anne O. Krueger, eds., Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1975).

The presence of economies of size in processing has been long recognized, but discussions of the relationships between capacity utilization and distortions are relatively recent. A seminal theoretical discussion is provided in Gordon C. Winston and Thomas McCoy, "Investment and the Optimal Idleness of Capital, Review of Economic Studies 41 (July 1974): 419-28. Empirical applications of social profitability analysis to economies of size in agroindustries are provided in William F. Steel, "Import Substitution and Excess Capacity inGhana," Oxford Economic Papers 24 (July 1972): 212-40; Scott R. Pearson and William Ingram, "Economies of Scale, Domestic Divergences, and Potential Gains from Economic Integration in Ghana and the Ivory Coast," Journal of Political Economy 88 (October 1980): 994-1008; and Eric A. Monke, Scott R. Pearson, and J. P. Silva-Carvalho, "Welfare Effects of a Processing Cartel: Flour Milling in Portugal," Economic Development and Cultural Change 35 (January 1987): 393-407. A further illustration of the use of the PAM approach in studying agroindustries is provided in Michael Barzelay and Scott R. Pearson, "The Efficiency of Producing Alcohol for Energy in Brazil," Economic Development and Cultural Change 30 (October 1982): 131-44.