Agriculture and economic development
- New Delhi Select Book Service 1984
- 380p. : ill
Many textbooks are available in the general field of 'development economics' and several on 'agricultural economics' with a developed country orientation. But very few texts have been written centring on the economic problems of agriculture in developing countries and virtually none in recent years. This book is our attempt to fill this gap
in the literature. The principal objectives of the book are to analyse agriculture's role in the development of Third World countries, to identify barriers to agricultural development and to examine critically remedial agricultural policies to foster more rapid development.
The book is primarily written for students of economics and agricultural economics who are already reasonably well versed in the principles of economics as taught to first and second year under graduates in British universities. We expect that many of our readers will already have some knowledge of the wider field of development economics, or will be taking a parallel course in that subject. Thus our primary purpose is to illuminate the economic problems of agricul ture in less developed countries (LDCs) and to analyse policy alternatives by applying well-known tools of economic analysis. However, as as in other fields of agricultural dement en "pplied economics, the student of knowledge of the institutionals acquire an adequate ant secondary objective is to I framework. Thus, an import of the institutions through wide readers with a basic knowledge reformist policies LDCs are commonly conducted. These institution for agriculture in land reform, the provision of credit stabilisation, and and advancement of itutional aspects include price and education. We envisage that the book might serve either as the main text for a full-length course on agricultural development economics, or as a supplementary text for less specialised courses in the economics of development or agriculture.