Value Added in Agriculture as a Regional Development Strategy

Lay James Gibson and James B. Nelson

Chapter 6 in Regional Science in Developing Countries, 1997, pp 74-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The World Bank describes China as a ‘low income economy’, whereas it calls the USA a ‘high income economy’ (and in between are the middle- and upper-middle income economies.) In recent years, economic growth in China has been impressive, but it is still a relatively poor country, with employment focused on the primary sector in general, and on the food and fibre-producing agriculture element in particular. The USA, in contrast, is a rich country where conspicuous change is more likely to come in terms of productivity shifts than in terms of employment shifts. The primary sector is a small employer and it plays a very different role in the US development agenda from that in the Chinese development agenda.

Keywords: Strategic Alliance; Local Development; Development Agenda; Primary Sector; Income Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_6

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