Agrarian systems and rural development /
edited by Dharam Ghai ... [et al.].
- London : Macmillan, 1979.
- xv, 375 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1 Alternative Agrarian Systems and Rural Development in the Third World 1.1 Objectives and contents of the studies
1.2 Alternative agrarian systems: performance, problems and policies (a) The system of individual farming (b) The intermediate category (c) The system of communal farming 1.3 Some concluding comments
2 Egalitarian Peasant Fanning and Rural Development: The Case of South Korea 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The agricultural system of South Korea 2.3 Performance of the rural economy (a) Growth (b) The distribution of rural incomes (c) Savings and accumulation 2.4 Factors explaining the performance of the agricultural system 2.5 On specificity and replicability
3 Organisation of Agriculture for Rural Development: The Indian Case
3.1 Introduction 3.2 The strategy 3.3 The evolution of policy (a) Pre-independence thought (b) Abandonment of the comprehensive approach (c) The intensive area development approach 3.4 Growth performance 3.5 Impact on agrarian relations 3.6 The sub-strategy for welfare 3. 7 The emerging structure
4 The Comilla Model and the Integrated Rural Development Programme of Bangladesh An Experiment in 'Co-operative Capitalism'
4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Comilla co-operative experiment (a) The background (b) Increased production (c) The distribution of income (d) Capital accumulation and credit (e) The success and failure of the Comilla experiment: a summary 4.3 The expansion of the Comilla-type of co-operative in the rest of Bangladesh
5 The State and Agrarian Change: A Case Study of Egypt, 1952-77 159
5.1 Introduction 5.2 The evolution of Egypt's agrarian system before land reform 5.3 The post-reform agrarian system 5.4 The impact of agrarian reform (a) Growth performance (b) Income distribution and poverty (c) The impact of the system of supervised co-operatives 5.5 Sectoral balance and the mobilisation of agricultural surplus (a) Inter-sectoral terms of trade (b) Rural-urban disparities 5.6 Conclusion
6 Agrarian Change in a Plantation Economy: The Case of Guyana Clive Thomas 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Colonialism, slavery and the plantation system 6.3 Change in the plantation system: immigration and indenture 6.4 Sugar as an MNC activity (a) Transition (b) Sugar economy: post-World War II structure 6.5 Peasant economy and sugar: the other side of dualism (a) Broad characteristics (b) The peasant sugar sector 6.6 Overcoming the plantation system: nationalisation 6.7 Nationalisation and the agrarian impasse
7 Ujamaa and Villagisadon in Tanzania Dharam Ghai and Reginald Herbold Green 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The agricultural system prior to Ujamaa 7.3 The evolution of agricultural organisation and policy: 1967-77 (a) The estate sector (b) Patterns of villagisation (c) Parallel policy changes 7.4 Impact on distribution and production (a) Impact on land and income distribution (b) Organisation and efficiency of production (c) Provision of social services 7.5 Conclusion
8 Achievements and Incentives in Communal Agriculture: The Case of China Azizur Rahman Khan and Ng Gek-boo 8.1 A summary of achievements 8.2 The need for further progress and an incentive policy 8.3 Individual incentives 8.4 Collective incentives (a) Agricultural taxation (b) Compulsory and voluntary procurement (c) The possible alternative price (d) Average and marginal rates of taxes on agriculture (e) The collectives' perception of the incentive system 8.5 Sectoral incentive 8.6 Incentives and inequality 9 Collective Agriculture in Soviet Central Asia
9.1 Introduction 9.2 Trends in sectoral incomes 9.3 An exception to the strategy of primitive socialist accumulation 9.4 Changes since 1953 9.5 Productive efficiency (a) The success story of cotton (b) Relative performance of Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz in growing cotton (c) Grain crops 9.6 Collective agriculture and personal plots 9. 7 The distribution of income (a) The degree of inequality among collective farms (b) Intra-Kolkhoz inequality (c) Personal plots and income distribution 9.8 Accumulation 9. 9 Some concluding observations
10 Cuban Agriculture and Development: Contradictions and Progress 10.1 Introduction (a) The land reform: a dual process (b) Redistribution and social programmes 10.2 Production and accumulation in the 1960s (a) Development strategy of the 1960s (b) Substance of strategy (c) Planning and incentives 1. The big push 2. The organisation problem 3. Ineffective investment (d) Weak design of strategy (e) Poor labour mobilisation 10.3 Reorganisation and progress in the 1970s (a) The role of education and special programmes (b) The dual reform of politics and planning (c) Re-balancing the Cuban econ
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Rural development--Case studies. Agriculture--Case studies.--Developing countries