Scale effects in per capita production are an outcome of many theoretical economic models like second generation growth models, models of the new trade theory or the new economic geography. The prediction is that larger economies should have a higher per capita production than smaller economies. However, in an open economy context the scale of the economy is less important because countries can...

T his study investigated the effect of international labor migration on Iran’s economy using a neo-classical growth model with the assumption of labor heterogeneity within the framework of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. After solving the model, the obtained equations were linearized and different values were assigned to the parameters according to Iran’s economy inform...

ICAR Technical Series No 3 In the last two decades total milk production has almost doubled while the heads of cattle have increased by 28 percent in developing countries (FAO, 1999). There is a large variation among regions. The Far East region shows the sharpest production increase, also per capita, while Africa and the Near East show the largest increase in heads of cattle but a continuous d...