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Rural Education and Health

In: Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation

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  • John W. Mellor

    (Cornell University
    John Mellor Associates, Inc.)

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Increased rural employment and income derived from rapid agricultural growth create an improved context for school attendance and improved health. Education and health increase the response by small commercial farmers to productivity-increasing modernization. Rural education and health require constantly increasing public sector investment. They are as important to universal social objectives as to agricultural growth. All levels of education are essential to agricultural modernization. Primary education must be universal so everyone has the basic skills of literacy and numeracy. Secondary education must be achieved by a rapidly increasing portion of the population as modernization demands those skills and for selection to higher education. Higher education is essential for rapidly increasing qualified staff for public and private institutions.

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  • John W. Mellor, 2017. "Rural Education and Health," Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, in: Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation, chapter 0, pages 123-133, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psachp:978-3-319-65259-7_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65259-7_10
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    1. Andrey Baldanov & Lily Kiminami & Shinichi Furuzawa, 2019. "Study on the relationships between rural and agricultural development and human resource development in Russian Federation since 2000s," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 87-100, August.

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