Rural Employment Linkages through Agricultural Growth: Concepts, Issues, and Questions

John W. Mellor
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Chapter 14 in The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, 1989, pp 305-319 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Contemporary development theory has had little place for agriculture in growth. This is because of a perceived weakness of backward and forward linkages (in Hirschman’s, 1958, strong condemnation of agriculture on this count, for example); or, because of an emphasis on capital formation as the primary engine of growth, with agriculture as a consumer goods industry with low savings rates (e.g., see Mahalanobis, 1953 — he was the father of the Indian Second Five Year Plan); or, because of an emphasis on import substitution, with agriculture seen as an export industry, as a producer of nontradable output, or with both inelastic demand and supply (e.g., see Prebisch, 1971).

Keywords: Technological Change; Saving Rate; Wage Bill; Effective Demand; Agricultural Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19746-0_14

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