Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation: Promoting Growth with Poverty Reduction

✍ Scribed by John W. Mellor (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Introduction (John W. Mellor)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
The Economic Transformation (John W. Mellor)....Pages 17-28
Measuring the Impact of Agricultural Growth on Economic Transformation (John W. Mellor)....Pages 29-46
Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition (John W. Mellor)....Pages 47-60
Capital Formation and the Exchange Rate (John W. Mellor)....Pages 61-71
Front Matter ....Pages 73-73
The Farm, the Farmer, and Labor Supply (John W. Mellor)....Pages 75-86
Land and Land Tenure (John W. Mellor)....Pages 87-99
Front Matter ....Pages 101-101
Government and the Institutions of Modernization (John W. Mellor)....Pages 103-112
Physical Infrastructure (John W. Mellor)....Pages 113-122
Rural Education and Health (John W. Mellor)....Pages 123-133
Prices and Price Policy (John W. Mellor)....Pages 135-150
Research and Extension (John W. Mellor)....Pages 151-164
Purchased Inputs (John W. Mellor)....Pages 165-179
Finance for the Small Commercial Farmer (John W. Mellor)....Pages 181-193
Cities, Consumption, and Marketing Dynamics (John W. Mellor)....Pages 195-205
The Role of Foreign Aid (John W. Mellor)....Pages 207-220
Conclusion (John W. Mellor)....Pages 221-230
Back Matter ....Pages 231-259

✦ Subjects

Agricultural Economics