Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa (Routledge Revivals)
Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Mats Lundahl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 131759343X

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Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern. First published in 1990, this book focuses on the nature and role of incentives in agricultural organization and production in East Africa, looking in particular at the political and ideological determinants of that role. Mats Lundahl analyses ways of improving agricultural performance, and considers the ‘African socialism’ of Julius Nyerere in contrast with the market-led approaches, which he favours. A detailed title, this volume will of interest to all those concerned with the issues of rural development, including students of development studies, economics, and African studies.

Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa (Routledge Revivals)
Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Mats Lundahl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781138818897

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Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern. First published in 1990, this book focuses on the nature and role of incentives in agricultural organization and production in East Africa, looking in particular at the political and ideological determinants of that role. Mats Lundahl analyses ways of improving agricultural performance, and considers the 'African socialism' of Julius Nyerere in contrast with the market-led approaches, which he favours. A detailed title, this volume will of interest to all those concerned with the issues of rural development, including students of development studies, economics, and African studies.

Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa
Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa

Author: Mats Lundahl

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 248

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A discussion of what action can be taken in order to stimulate agricultural production in East Africa, which has recently been plunged into crisis. This book analyzes African socialism and contrasts this with more market-led approaches.

Development in Practice (Routledge Revivals)
Development in Practice (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Doug Porter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1317829301

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The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years, not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. First published in 1991, Development in Practice explores the reasons for this projects failure, and looks at the lessons to be learned from this experience for development in general. Challenging many assumptions and approaches, its provocative conclusions will generate much interest amongst development practitioners.

The Primary Sector in Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)
The Primary Sector in Economic Development (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Mats Lundahl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 131759360X

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It is a major problem for less developed countries to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up their manufacturing and service sectors. This edited collection, first published in 1985, examines the nature of the primary sector and its role in economic development. Chapters consider problems of stagnation and income distribution in such countries as Chile and Brazil; trade in national primary products and exports in Africa and the Middle East; and reform and policies of development in countries such as Peru. An interesting volume with an international scope, this title will be of value to economics students with a particular interest in the role of the primary sector in developing economies.

Growth and Fluctuations 1870-1913 (Routledge Revivals)
Growth and Fluctuations 1870-1913 (Routledge Revivals)

Author: W. Arthur Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1135229902

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In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration from Europe, India and China, and large-scale international investment. The book contrasts the relationship between prices, industrial fluctuations, agricultural output, and the stock of monetary gold, considering both the varying patterns of leading economies and then their net combined effect on the rest of the world. This is history which illuminates the contemporary economic climate in which it was written but also casts light upon our current economic crisis.

The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-war Depression (Routledge Revivals)
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-war Depression (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Ian Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317574044

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The great inter-war depression has long been seen as an unprecedented economic disaster for the peoples of the non-European world. This book, with its detailed assessment of the impact of the depression on the economies of Africa and Asia, challenges the orthodox view, and is essential reading for those with a teaching or research interest in the modern economic history of those continents. Established specialists in the modern economic history of parts of Africa or Asia put forward a number of revisionist arguments. They show that some economies were left essentially unscathed by the depression, and that for many export-dependent peasant communities which did face a severe drop in cash income as world commodity prices collapsed from the late 1920s, there was a range of important responses and reactions by which they could defend their economic welfare. For many peasant communities the depression was not a disaster but an opportunity.

Socialism, Economics and Development (Routledge Revivals)
Socialism, Economics and Development (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alec Nove

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1136582665

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First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union. Reflecting the varied and diverse interests of its distinguished author, the topics range from Soviet constitutional law, to Trotsky’s view of collectivization; from a critique of conventional micro-economics, to the economic disaster of the Allende regime in Chile. The author’s long-standing immersion in the past and present of the Soviet Union helps to provide the unique insights into the workings of Socialist economies characteristic of Professor Nove’s previous work. This volume should be essential reading for anyone interested in development economics, socialist economies, or the problems facing contemporary Soviet economic reformers.

Agricultural Extension Worldwide
Agricultural Extension Worldwide

Author: William M. Rivera

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1000562573

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First published in 1987, Agricultural Extension Worldwide presents an international perspective on agricultural extension and highlights extension as an integral function of agricultural development. Agricultural extension is one of the largest nonformal problem-solving educational systems in the world. It is generally concerned with transferring knowledge and research to farmers but may include services to other target audiences such as farm families and rural youth, as well as serve for developing rural community resources. In sixteen chapters, various major systems of extension are discussed along with factors that make for their success or failure, including the linkages required and the policy and financial supports necessary to make them effective. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of agricultural economics, agricultural policy and agriculture in general.

The Israeli Economy (Routledge Revivals)
The Israeli Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Yair Aharoni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1317950887

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First published in 1991, during a significant stagnation in the Israeli economy, this title discusses the causes of the economic downturn, and assesses the country’s prospects. Throughout, Aharoni measures the economic problems Israel has endured against the social and economic successes it has been able to achieve. He highlights the incongruities of the aspirations of Israel’s founders and supporters and the reality, as well as the interplay of economic and political forces that have shaped this. With a detailed introduction to the ideology and development of the state of Israel, and a history of the Israeli economy and its institutional structure, this title will be of significant value to any student studying the economic history of Israel and the Middle East.