Agriculture and the State : : Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Developing Countries /

Agriculture and the State : : Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Developing Countries / / ed. by C. Peter Timmer.

The process of economic development depends on the modernization of agriculture. Agriculture and the State responds to this historical lesson by examining government interventions into the agricultural economy of developing countries. In this attempt to understand the appropriate role of policy, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Clay, Edward,
David, Cristina C.,
Donaldson, Graham,
Faaland, Just,
Falcon, Walter P.,
Flopkins, Raymond F.,
Houck, James P.,
Lindert, Peter H.,
Parkinson, Jack,
Timmer, C. Peter,
Valdes, Alberto,
HerausgeberIn:
Timmer, C. Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1991
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Food Systems and Agrarian Change
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 20 graphs and charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1 The Role of the State in Agricultural Development
  • 2 Historical Patterns of Agricultural Policy
  • 3 The Role of Agricultural Exports in Development
  • 4 Observations on Export-Led Growth as a Development Strategy
  • 5 Agricultural Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Asia
  • 6 Government-Sponsored Rural Development: Experience of the World Bank
  • 7 Rural Development: Problems and Prospects
  • 8 Food Aid, Development, and Food Security
  • 9 Whither Food Aid? A Comment
  • 10 The Nature of the State and the Role of Government in Agricultural Development
  • 11 Notes on Agriculture and the State
  • 12 What Have We Learned?
  • Index

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