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

In: The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development

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  • John W. Mellor

    (International Food Policy Research Institute)

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).

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  • John W. Mellor, 1989. "Rural Employment Linkages through Agricultural Growth: Concepts, Issues, and Questions," International Economic Association Series, in: Jeffrey G. Williamson & Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi (ed.), The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, chapter 14, pages 305-319, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-19746-0_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19746-0_14
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    Cited by:

    1. Karshenas M., 1989. "Intersectoral resource flows and development: lessons of past experience," ILO Working Papers 992686643402676, International Labour Organization.
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    3. S. R. Osmani, 1993. "Growth and Entitlements: The Analytics of the Green Revolution," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1993-108, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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