Lakshman S Yapa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lakshman S Yapa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lakshman S |
| FAMILY NAME | Yapa |
| SIGNATURE | YAPA L S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conference on biodiversity and landscapes
Growth Linkages, the Nonfarm Sector, and Rural Inequality
There is a growing interest today in the topic of nonfarm activities such as small industries and construction located in rural areas of the Third World. These activities are viewed as a means for
How Not to Study the Geography of Human Welfare
Innovation Bias, Appropriate Technology, and Basic Goods
Non-Adoption of Innovations
The concern in rural development for redistribution with growth provided the rationale for an investigation of the non-adoption of innovations. Previous studies of farmers have emphasized lack of information and individual conservatism as possible reasons for the failure to adopt improved farm technology. However, evidence from a study of farmers in Karnataka, India, who had failed to adopt a new variety of high-yielding maize revealed that polit…
Innovation Diffusion and Economic Involution
The Green Revolution
The diffusion of technological innovations commonly is viewed as an index of the geographic spread of economic development. This is tantamount to equating development with the physical growth of production forces, a rather misleading simplification of what is otherwise a very complex process. For example, the “Green Revolution'’has been heralded as the harbinger of economic modernization to rural India, but it has other far more fundamental impli…
The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Part 1 Theory and method in economic development: development - which way now?, Amartya K. Sen the misconceptions of developmental Deepak Lal conventional foolishness and overall ignorance - current approaches to global transformation and development, Gerald Helleiner toward a non ethnocentric theory of development - alternative conceptions from the Third World, Howard H. Wiarda. Part 2 Economic development and underdevelopment in a historical pe…
Analytical Alternatives to the Monte Carlo Simulation of Spatial Diffusion
A single map of the spread of an innovation produced from a Monte Carlo simulation is equivalent from the viewpoint of sampling theory to a random sample of size one drawn from the set of all possible maps. A sample mean is a more reliable estimator of the population mean when the sample size is large. In the simulation of diffusion the recommended practice has been to obtain an average map based on several repetitions of the simulation, but the …
Information Fields in Rural Mysore
The nature and the frequency of communication inputs among Indian farmers are key correlates of the pattern of diffusion of modern farm practices. In a country where mass media is urban centered and its extensions somewhat limited, rural communication will continue to be conducted primarily along interpersonal oral channels1 [17, pp. 24-29]. After a survey of development communication in several Indian villages Dube [4] concludes that a mechanism…
The Green Revolution
The diffusion of technological innovations commonly is viewed as an index of the geographic spread of economic development. This is tantamount to equating development with the physical growth of production forces, a rather misleading simplification of what is otherwise a very complex process. For example, the “Green Revolution'’has been heralded as the harbinger of economic modernization to rural India, but it has other far more fundamental impli…
Non-Adoption of Innovations
The concern in rural development for redistribution with growth provided the rationale for an investigation of the non-adoption of innovations. Previous studies of farmers have emphasized lack of information and individual conservatism as possible reasons for the failure to adopt improved farm technology. However, evidence from a study of farmers in Karnataka, India, who had failed to adopt a new variety of high-yielding maize revealed that polit…
How Not to Study the Geography of Human Welfare
Innovation Diffusion and Economic Involution
Information Fields in Rural Mysore
The nature and the frequency of communication inputs among Indian farmers are key correlates of the pattern of diffusion of modern farm practices. In a country where mass media is urban centered and its extensions somewhat limited, rural communication will continue to be conducted primarily along interpersonal oral channels1 [17, pp. 24-29]. After a survey of development communication in several Indian villages Dube [4] concludes that a mechanism…
Analytical Alternatives to the Monte Carlo Simulation of Spatial Diffusion
A single map of the spread of an innovation produced from a Monte Carlo simulation is equivalent from the viewpoint of sampling theory to a random sample of size one drawn from the set of all possible maps. A sample mean is a more reliable estimator of the population mean when the sample size is large. In the simulation of diffusion the recommended practice has been to obtain an average map based on several repetitions of the simulation, but the …
The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Part 1 Theory and method in economic development: development - which way now?, Amartya K. Sen the misconceptions of developmental Deepak Lal conventional foolishness and overall ignorance - current approaches to global transformation and development, Gerald Helleiner toward a non ethnocentric theory of development - alternative conceptions from the Third World, Howard H. Wiarda. Part 2 Economic development and underdevelopment in a historical pe…
Innovation Diffusion and Economic Involution
The Green Revolution
The diffusion of technological innovations commonly is viewed as an index of the geographic spread of economic development. This is tantamount to equating development with the physical growth of production forces, a rather misleading simplification of what is otherwise a very complex process. For example, the “Green Revolution'’has been heralded as the harbinger of economic modernization to rural India, but it has other far more fundamental impli…
Non-Adoption of Innovations
The concern in rural development for redistribution with growth provided the rationale for an investigation of the non-adoption of innovations. Previous studies of farmers have emphasized lack of information and individual conservatism as possible reasons for the failure to adopt improved farm technology. However, evidence from a study of farmers in Karnataka, India, who had failed to adopt a new variety of high-yielding maize revealed that polit…
Innovation Bias, Appropriate Technology, and Basic Goods
How Not to Study the Geography of Human Welfare
Conference on biodiversity and landscapes
Growth Linkages, the Nonfarm Sector, and Rural Inequality
There is a growing interest today in the topic of nonfarm activities such as small industries and construction located in rural areas of the Third World. These activities are viewed as a means for
Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (3 works) · Agricultural economics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (2 works) · Law (2 works)