A View of Rural Development, 1980s Vintage (or why some of the Emperor’s clothes — and his rice — should be made at home)

Gustav Ranis

Chapter 9 in Trade, Planning and Rural Development, 1990, pp 139-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We are all aware of the fact that the field of development economics has been subject to extreme fads. In the fifties and sixties, industrialisation was identified with successful development and the view firmly held by most of the profession, as well as policy-makers, that a rapid drive toward industrialisation could be counted on to drag the agricultural sector along with it. In the early 1970s, under the impact of the oil crisis, combined with a global food shortage, the same policy-makers and analysts finally became aware of the fundamental importance of the agricultural sector, but mainly as a source of food or as a way of substituting for the previous need to deploy scarce exchange for the importation of food in regions which often had been staple exporters before independence.

Keywords: Rural Development; Rural Economy; Rural Industry; Production Linkage; Modern Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11415-3_10

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