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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Food Systems and Agrarian ChangePublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 20 graphs and chartsContent type:
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  • 9781501737954
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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
Summary: 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 authors seek to explain government successes and failures in facilitating the contribution of agriculture to the overall development process. The book is the joint effort of eleven scholars and policy analysts of agricultural development from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
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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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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 authors seek to explain government successes and failures in facilitating the contribution of agriculture to the overall development process. The book is the joint effort of eleven scholars and policy analysts of agricultural development from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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