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The Camel and the Watermill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2010

Richard Bulliet
Richard Bulliet*
Affiliation:
Middle East Institute, Columbia University, New York; e-mail: rwb3@columbia.edu
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Extract

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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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , November 2010 , pp. 666 - 668
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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NOTE

1 Heston, Alan et al. , “The Economics of Camel Transportation in Pakistan,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 34 (1985): 130–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar.