Robert Eastwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 239122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Eastwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Eastwood |
| SIGNATURE | EASTWOOD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa: How big will the economic dividend be
In mid-demographic-transition, many Asian countries enjoyed a large demographic 'dividend': extra economic growth owing to falling dependant/workforce ratios, or slower natural increase, or both. We estimate the dividend, 1985-2025, in sub-Saharan Africa and its populous countries. Dependency and natural increase peaked around 1985, 20 years after Asia. The UN projects an acceleration of the subsequent slow falls but disregards slowish declines i…
Chapter 65 Farm Size
Controversies in Climate Change Economics
This article is a non-technical review of the economics of global policy on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Quite a lot is known about the likely physical consequences of anthropogenic climate change, but much uncertainty remains. In particular, account needs to be taken of possible catastrophes such as ice sheet melting. How are we to balance the known costs of taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the present against the uncert…
The Financial Turmoil and EU Policy Co‐operation in 2008
This article analyses the response of the European Union (EU) to the financial crisis in 2008 under the headings of liquidity, recapitalization and ownership of banks, macroeconomic policies and regulatory policy. It is argued that although at the onset of the crisis governments tended to focus on national‐level responses, they quickly realized that international co‐ordination would be required. This proved difficult to achieve in many areas, alt…
Premature deagriculturalisation? Land inequality and rural dependency in Limpopo province, South Africa
Cross-national regressions reveal abnormally low agricultural workforce shares, given GNP, in developing countries that had historically concentrated land into large capital-intensive farms. We argue that such deagriculturalisation was premature, since its concomitant labour shedding has undesirable outcomes. In a new South African survey, a large proportion of rural households (and working-age persons) was ‘dependent’, relying for income almost …
Directed credit and investment in small‐scale industry in India: Evidence from firm‐level data 1965–78
Panel data on 788 modern sector Indian firms during 1965–78 are used to analyse the link between the size of a firm and its financial environment. Exogeneity tests reveal that large firms with improved investment prospects could obtain external finance at the margin, but that small firms could not. The policy of directing bank credit accordingly relaxed a binding constraint on small firms, raising investment. Assuming that all of the rise in the …
The impact of changes in human fertility on poverty
Household survey data for developing and transitional economies are used to estimate the effect of fertility (crude birth rate net of infant deaths) on private consumption poverty. Cross-national regressions indicate that higher fertility increases poverty both by retarding economic growth and by skewing distribution against the poor. Our median country in 1980 had 'dollar-a-day' poverty incidence of 18.9 per cent; had it reduced its fertility by…
The Macroeconomic Implications of a Resource Discovery in an Open Economy
Journal Article The Macroeconomic Implications of a Resource Discovery in an Open Economy Get access R. K. Eastwood, R. K. Eastwood University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar A. J. Venables A. J. Venables University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 366, 1 June 1982, Pages 285–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232…
The Financial Turmoil and EU Policy Co‐operation in 2008
This article analyses the response of the European Union (EU) to the financial crisis in 2008 under the headings of liquidity, recapitalization and ownership of banks, macroeconomic policies and regulatory policy. It is argued that although at the onset of the crisis governments tended to focus on national‐level responses, they quickly realized that international co‐ordination would be required. This proved difficult to achieve in many areas, alt…
The Macroeconomic Implications of a Resource Discovery in an Open Economy
Journal Article The Macroeconomic Implications of a Resource Discovery in an Open Economy Get access R. K. Eastwood, R. K. Eastwood University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar A. J. Venables A. J. Venables University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 366, 1 June 1982, Pages 285–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232…
Demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa: How big will the economic dividend be
In mid-demographic-transition, many Asian countries enjoyed a large demographic 'dividend': extra economic growth owing to falling dependant/workforce ratios, or slower natural increase, or both. We estimate the dividend, 1985-2025, in sub-Saharan Africa and its populous countries. Dependency and natural increase peaked around 1985, 20 years after Asia. The UN projects an acceleration of the subsequent slow falls but disregards slowish declines i…
The Macroeconomic Implications of a Resource Discovery in an Open Economy
Journal Article The Macroeconomic Implications of a Resource Discovery in an Open Economy Get access R. K. Eastwood, R. K. Eastwood University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar A. J. Venables A. J. Venables University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 366, 1 June 1982, Pages 285–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232…
Directed credit and investment in small‐scale industry in India: Evidence from firm‐level data 1965–78
Panel data on 788 modern sector Indian firms during 1965–78 are used to analyse the link between the size of a firm and its financial environment. Exogeneity tests reveal that large firms with improved investment prospects could obtain external finance at the margin, but that small firms could not. The policy of directing bank credit accordingly relaxed a binding constraint on small firms, raising investment. Assuming that all of the rise in the …
The impact of changes in human fertility on poverty
Household survey data for developing and transitional economies are used to estimate the effect of fertility (crude birth rate net of infant deaths) on private consumption poverty. Cross-national regressions indicate that higher fertility increases poverty both by retarding economic growth and by skewing distribution against the poor. Our median country in 1980 had 'dollar-a-day' poverty incidence of 18.9 per cent; had it reduced its fertility by…
Premature deagriculturalisation? Land inequality and rural dependency in Limpopo province, South Africa
Cross-national regressions reveal abnormally low agricultural workforce shares, given GNP, in developing countries that had historically concentrated land into large capital-intensive farms. We argue that such deagriculturalisation was premature, since its concomitant labour shedding has undesirable outcomes. In a new South African survey, a large proportion of rural households (and working-age persons) was ‘dependent’, relying for income almost …
The Financial Turmoil and EU Policy Co‐operation in 2008
This article analyses the response of the European Union (EU) to the financial crisis in 2008 under the headings of liquidity, recapitalization and ownership of banks, macroeconomic policies and regulatory policy. It is argued that although at the onset of the crisis governments tended to focus on national‐level responses, they quickly realized that international co‐ordination would be required. This proved difficult to achieve in many areas, alt…
Chapter 65 Farm Size
Controversies in Climate Change Economics
This article is a non-technical review of the economics of global policy on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Quite a lot is known about the likely physical consequences of anthropogenic climate change, but much uncertainty remains. In particular, account needs to be taken of possible catastrophes such as ice sheet melting. How are we to balance the known costs of taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the present against the uncert…
Demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa: How big will the economic dividend be
In mid-demographic-transition, many Asian countries enjoyed a large demographic 'dividend': extra economic growth owing to falling dependant/workforce ratios, or slower natural increase, or both. We estimate the dividend, 1985-2025, in sub-Saharan Africa and its populous countries. Dependency and natural increase peaked around 1985, 20 years after Asia. The UN projects an acceleration of the subsequent slow falls but disregards slowish declines i…
Economics (8 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Consumption (sociology) (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Fertility (2 works)