This chapter provides an overview of the recent developments in tourism demand modelling and forecasting since the 1990s. While a wide range of forecasting models is available for tourism demand forecasting, tourism managers should use models that are based on solid economic theories and provide...

This chapter is concerned with methods of assessing the impacts of policies on livestock prices and markets. It first deals with partial equilibrium approaches, to assess price distortions and market impacts for a single commodity. These approaches include: the policy analysis matrix (PAM); and...

This chapter describes different methods for estimating the production function, including central tendency methods (average ratio analysis, simple regression models, random coefficient models, and mixture models) and frontier models (data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier models).

An ex ante evaluation of factors affecting farmers' land use is presented, using surveyed data gathered from low-income maize and vegetable farmers in a southern Philippines watershed at the forest margin to measure how land and labour allocations for various crops respond to changes in expected...

An overview of the Policy Information System for Agricultural Sectors in Transition Economies is presented. Following a brief description of the concept, general characteristics such as methods, techniques, and organization of the information system is then described. A country by country overview...