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Rural Employment, Migration and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from Africa

In: Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries

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  • Derek R. Byerlee

    (Michigan State University)

  • Carl K. Eicher

    (Michigan State University)

Abstract

The literature of development economics has become increasingly concerned with the ‘employment problem’. Interest in this problem was stimulated by rapid increases in the rate of urban unemployment in many developing countries in the 1960s. Increasingly, however, the employment problem is being examined within the context of several widespread but related problems in the developing world such as (a) open and partial unemployment, particularly in the urban areas, (b) low-productivity labour and seasonal unemployment in agriculture, (c) wide disparities in personal income distribution, and (d) significant disparities between rural and urban incomes.2 Recognising these problems, numerous economists and policy-makers have replaced the traditional emphasis on growth as the primary indicator of development with a redefinition of development to include the multiple dimensions of growth, employment and equity.

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  • Derek R. Byerlee & Carl K. Eicher, 1974. "Rural Employment, Migration and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from Africa," International Economic Association Series, in: Nurul Islam (ed.), Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries, chapter 11, pages 273-313, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-63663-1_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63663-1_11
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