Inequality of opportunity and economic development

Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in wealth, power, and status have efficiency costs. These variablescapture different aspects of people's opportunity sets, for which observed income may be a poor proxy. One implication is that the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative measures of the relevant distributions are needed. The authors review some of the detailed microeconomic evidence, and then suggest three research areas where further work is needed.Economic Theory&Research,Inequality,ICT Policy and Strategies,Poverty Impact Evaluation,Primary Education

Grain legume agronomy programme.

Lupin agronomy, Series l - Growth factor interactions. 82GE18, 82GE19, 82N038, 82N18, 82MA13. Lupin agronomy, Series 2 - Harvest index response to density 82GE20, 82M24. Lupin agronomy, nutrition, 82GE21, 82MA14, 82M017. Erregulla lupin rotation plots, 81M027, 81M029, 81M030. Grain legumes for wheatbelt rotations, 81GE6,81TS3, 81ME3, 81M05, 81MO14. Grain legume species trials, 81E30, 82NA31, 82JE23, 82E26, 82LG28. Low rainfall, medium soils pH 5.5 to 7.0, 82ME41, 82ES35, 82ES36, 82TS25, 82ME39. Sites that failed, 82GE23, 82ME40, 82JE18. Field pea agronomy, 82LG27, 82LG26. Oat/lupin mixtures for grain feed 82Bu9, 82Bu10, 82AL34. Oat/pea mixtures for hay, 82PE21, 82KA37. Fababean nodulation, 82MD16, 82MN25

Part 4 Field pea agronomy

Time of planting effect and rate of seeding effect. Field Pea Agronomy 1972 Effeot of time of planting The 1972 season started late (end of May) and with a dry September forced the plants to an early maturity. Delaying seeding from May until July did not have much effect on grain yields. The best yields were produced with seeding done on the 30th June. Earlier sown treatments had greater weed competition. The varieties White Brunswick and Derrimut were early enough to produce higher yields with July time of planting. At Kulikup, where reproductive observations were made, delaying the planting from May until June reduced the vegetative stage in each variety. However delaying seeding from June until July allowed the vegetative stage of each variety to increase. When seeding late-July, the varieties were probably unable to accumulate sufficient low temperatures 72A7, 72A8, 72BR14, 72M4, 72MT32, 72MT33

Part 1 Lupin cultivar - agronomy

1.1. Time of planting effect 1.2. Planting density effect Trials - 72AL8, 72TS8, 72BR12, 72ES6, 72GE39, 72JE9, 72JE10, 2JE28, 72WH8

1976 Alternative grain legume species evaluation

l. Alternative species to Lupinus -76PE6, 76M11. 2. Time of Flowering Response of Cicer Arietinum to temperature and daylength

Evalution of grain legumes for wheatbelt rotations in Western Australia 1986 -1987

Conclusions about the geographic and climatic limitations to the economic production of some pulse species in Western Australia cannot be too definite after only two years of gathering data. The yield results confirm the superior adaptation of field pea and narrow-leaf lupin over the faba bean, chickpea, narbonne bean and lentil. In 1987, a relationship was found within specific crop cultivars / accessions, between seed yield and the spring (September + October) rainfall. It is expected that soil type will influence the yield response through variations in moisture retention capacity, fertility and root penetration. Any relationship between yield and environmental factors will probably also have to include a crop factor such as level of disease perhaps as a function of rainfall

Grain legume agronomy

Wheat yield following Ultra and Unicorp lupin, 77A21. Grain legume species comparison, 78A10, 78B9, 78B10, 78NA6. Lupin cultivar evaluation, 78B7, 78WH16 Cicer variety comparison, 78HA4. Cicer arietinum agronomy, 78HA5. Miscellaneous legume species comparison, 78M4, 78MT9. Lupin cultivar split-seed comparison, 78M012. CB49 Agronomy (continuing experiment), 77M017. Faba bean evaluation, 78MT10. Undersowing crops with subclover (cereal phase), 77NA25

Grain legume agronomy 1976-1977

76B1, Lupin agronomy, high rainfall area. CB49, Lupin crop establishment methods. 76JE7, Lupin agronomy and soil fertility improvement. 74MO11, Seedling regeneration. 75MO7, Pasture establishment under unicrop and soil fertility improvement. 76MO13, L. cosentinii cv CB49 agronomy. 76MO14, Amino acid sequence study in the maturation of lupin seed. 76MT4, Chick pea response to plant density. 76MT5, Effect of waterlogging on lupin species. 76NA9, Polyculture of wheat and lupin. 76NA10, Pasture establishment under cover crops. 76TS12, L cosentinii cv agronomy

1971 Dealing with lupin agronomy and field pea establishment

Pilot work for the establishment of L. angustifolius cultivars Uniharvestand Unicrop. Preliminary seed yield evaluations of recently developed L. angustifolius, L.cosentini and L. albus cultivars. Results of one trial dealing with establishment technique for Field Peas (Pisum spp.) EX 71A17, 71BA 18, 71BA19, 71C12, 71MT31, 71MT34, 71WH21

Part 5 Comparison of genetic components in lupin species

Influence of genetic components on harvest index. (note the conclusions from these results are especially subject to Statistical Analysis) 1. At three sites out of the four, the acquisition of \u27early\u27 gene(s) improved the harvest index. Mount Barker was the exception to this. This was true for both the cosentini, albus and angustifolius varieties. In 1971,when the spring was wetter than 1972,the plant maturity was much less of an influenceupon the harvest index. 2. The alkaloid content of the plant in L. angustifolius doesn°t seem to have a consistent influence upon the harvest index. This was the same experience irn the 1971 trials. In the L. cosentini varieties, the bitter types consistently give better harvest index than the sweet ones, but the sweet varieties are better than the semisweet variety. Thus susceptibility to insect damage doesn°t seem to be the difference between varieties of different alkaloid content. 3. The gene for white flowers and seed in L. angustifolius may reduce the plants vigour and capacity to set seed when the plant is under abnormal stresses. Trial - 72A17, 72BA16, 72C14, 72E15, 72MT28, 72WH1