Agrarian systems and rural development / edited by Dharam Ghai ... [et al.].

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.