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Sector Proportions and Economic Development: The Evidence since 1950

In: The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development

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  • Moshe Syrquin

    (Bar-Ilan University
    Harvard Institute for International Development)

Abstract

Economic development is a process of transformation as much as, if not more than, a process of expansion. The transformation of the economic system from a low productivity, predominantly rural, agrarian economy to one predominantly urban, industrial, with higher productivity, is not instantaneous. It is a gradual process during which productivity has to increase in most segments of the economy and, at the same time, the centre of gravity shifts from lower to higher productivity units. Disaggregation is therefore essential for the analysis of development.

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  • Moshe Syrquin, 1989. "Sector Proportions and Economic Development: The Evidence since 1950," International Economic Association Series, in: Jeffrey G. Williamson & Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi (ed.), The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, chapter 2, pages 32-53, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-19746-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19746-0_2
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    1. Badiane, Ousmane, 1990. "The Role of Agriculture and Trade In Economic Development," 1990 Symposium, Agricultural Restructuring in Southern Africa, July 24-27, 1990, Swakopmund, Namibia 183495, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. van Rooyen, Johan & Machethe, Charles, 1991. "Determining The Agricultural Sector'S Role In Regional Development In South Africa," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 30(4), December.
    3. Elisabetta Basile & Claudio Cecchi, 1997. "Beyond the sectors an analysis of economic differentiation in rural economy," Working Papers in Public Economics 29, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.

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