دانلود کتاب Success in Agricultural Transformation

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Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of Figures and Table page......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 21
Summary......Page 23
Introduction......Page 27
Introduction to Part One......Page 39
I.I. England's Agriculture in the 18th and 19th Centuries......Page 41
I.II. Japan's Agriculture from the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) to the 1960s, When Its Industrialization Took Off......Page 52
I.III. American Agriculture from the Mid-19th to the 20th Century......Page 61
Introduction......Page 86
II.I Ireland......Page 90
II.II. Portugal......Page 94
II.III. The Republic of Korea......Page 99
II.IV. Taiwan, China......Page 112
Introduction......Page 120
II.V. India......Page 121
II. VI. The People's Republic of China......Page 134
II.VII. Indonesia......Page 150
II.VIII. Malaysia......Page 160
II.IX. Tunisia......Page 166
II.X. Brazil......Page 172
II.XI. Chile......Page 190
SECTION C: REVIEW OF SELECTED QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURE TO OVERALL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION......Page 202
SECTION D: IS SUCCESS IN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IMPORTANT FOR OVERALL DEVELOPMENT? WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS SELECTIVE REVIEW......Page 210
Introduction to Part Two......Page 215
Introduction......Page 219
III.I. Canada......Page 221
III.II. Australia......Page 226
III.III. New Zealand......Page 232
Introduction......Page 239
IV.I. Ireland......Page 240
IV.II. Portugal......Page 251
V.I. Condition 1: A Stable Framework of Macroeconomic and Political Stability-The Central and Local Governments Are Able to Enforce Peace and Order......Page 259
V.II. Condition 2: An Effective Technology-Transfer System - Research and Extension Messages Reach the Majority of Farmers......Page 262
V.III. Condition 3: Access to Lucrative Markets –The Majority of Farmers Face Expanding Markets of Paying Customers; To Them, Investing in Agricultural and Rural Production Is Good Business......Page 264
V.IV. Condition 4: An Ownership System, Including a System of Usufruct Rights That Rewards Individual Initiative and Toil - It Is Feasible for Farm/Rural Families to Gain Monetarily from Risk Taking and Hard Work......Page 269
V.V. Condition 5: Employment-Creating Non-agricultural Sectors - As Agriculture Becomes More Productive, It Must Shed Labor, Which Unless Absorbed in Non-farm Jobs That Pay as Well as Agriculture Would Simply Constitute Exporting Farm Poverty to Other Sectors......Page 274
Introduction......Page 280
VI. I. Prevailing Insights into What Gets Smallholder Agriculture Moving and Why They Have Been Largely Disregarded......Page 284
VI.II. Political Economy Explanations: Alternative Theories of Governments' Neglect of Smallholder Agriculture......Page 288
VI.III. Is Patronage Politics a Key Factor Undermining Smallholder Agriculture?......Page 296
VI.IV. Success in Agricultural Transformation: Governments Are in the Driver's Seat......Page 316
VI.V. What Makes It Happen: The Public Foundations of Private Agriculture......Page 324
A.I. Proposed Approach Using Cross-Country Data and Case Studies......Page 333
A.II. Popper's Methodology of Science: Refutations of Bold Conjectures......Page 335
A.III. Seeking Refutations, Not Merely Confirmations, as Empirical Tests of Hypothesis: Practical Considerations......Page 337
B.II. Efficiency......Page 339
B.V. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)......Page 340
B.VIII. Median, Mean, and Mode......Page 341
B.XI. Protection Coefficients......Page 342
B.XII. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)......Page 343
B.XV. Small and Large Countries......Page 344
B.XVIII. Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Growth......Page 345
B.XIX. Value Added......Page 346
C. Supporting Tables......Page 347
Select Bibliography......Page 369
Index......Page 397