Growth in The Agricultural Sector

R. M. Sundrum

Chapter 5 in Economic Growth in Theory and Practice, 1990, pp 77-100 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As discussed in the last chapter, prevailing theories have sought to explain growth by taking the economy as a whole, though the assumptions about the economy have been derived from the characteristics of particular sectors. Thus, the classical theory was based on the agricultural economy, and the neo-classical theory on the industrial economy. The Lewis model distinguishes two sectors, but the main concern is with the growth of the modern or industrial sector, with the traditional sector only playing the role of supplying labour to the modern sector at a constant wage rate. It is only in the Butt model that all sectors of the economy are considered, and the growth process explained in terms of the sequence in which different sectors are mechanised by the introduction of fixed capital.

Keywords: Labour Productivity; Agricultural Sector; Agricultural Output; Labour Intensity; Price Ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230376816_5

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