International Journal of Middle East Studies

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 42, Issue 04  

Roundtable

The Camel and the Watermill

Richard Bullieta1

a1 Middle East Institute, Columbia University, New York; e-mail: rwb3@columbia.edu

Consider the data from the painstaking economic analysis of contemporary camel transport in Pakistan done by Alan Heston and several Pakistani associates in 1985 (see Table 1). It shows the typical annual costs and income in rupees of someone earning his livelihood by renting out a pack camel.

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