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The Role of Agriculture in Economic…
The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development
Erik Thorbecke
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Published Date
January 1970
Copyright
1970
ISBN
0-87014-203-8
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Table of Contents
Front matter, The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development
Author(s):
Erik Thorbecke
Introduction to "The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development"
Author(s):
Erik Thorbecke
(p. 3-12)
Chapter 1:
Prospects for Agricultural Trade of Developing Countries
Author(s):
Louis M. Goreux
(p. 15-73)
Chapter 2:
A Regional Model of Agricultural Development
Author(s):
J. A. C. Brown
(p. 75-94)
Chapter 3:
Toward a Policy Model of World Economic Development with Special Attention to the Agricultural Sector
Author(s):
Karl A. Fox
(p. 95-126)
Chapter 4:
Agriculture in the Open Economy
Author(s):
John C. H. Fei
&
Gustav Rants
(p. 129-164)
Chapter 5:
Relationships Between Agriculture, Nonagriculture, and Foreign Trade in the Development of Argentina and Peru
Author(s):
Erik Thorbecke
&
Alfred J. Field
(p. 165-218)
Chapter 6:
A Programming Model for a Dual Economy
Author(s):
Jan Sandee
(p. 219-234)
Chapter 7:
Comparative Study of Transformation of Agriculture in Centrally Planned Economies:The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Mainland China
Author(s):
Jerzy F. Karcz
(p. 237-276)
Chapter 8:
The Transferability of the Japanese Pattern of Modernizing Traditional Agriculture
Author(s):
Kazushi Ohkawa
&
Bruce F. Johnston
(p. 277-310)
Chapter 9:
The Transformation of Agriculture in a Semi-Industrialized Country: The Case of Brazil
Author(s):
William H. Nicholls
(p. 311-385)
Chapter 10:
Agricultural Planning: The Peruvian Experience
Author(s):
Hylke Van de Wetering
(p. 387-450)
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