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Title: | Agriculture, the Theory of Economic Development, and the Zande Scheme |
Author: | Onwubuemeli, Emeka |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 569-587 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Sudan |
Subjects: | economic development agriculture development corporations development projects Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/159991 |
Abstract: | The problem of economic development is often reduced to that of industrialisation, while agriculture is generally identified with stagnation and under development. Hence the prevailing view that development ultimately involves a shift in the conomic centre of gravity from agriculture to industry. This theme is elaborated expecially by W. Arthur Lewis in 'Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour' (originally published in The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, May 1954, and reprinted in A. Agarwala and S. Singh (eds.), The Economics of Underdevelopment). The author poses that it is misleading to equate economic development with industrialisation, or to consider agriculture of marginal importance in the process. The decisive importance of human aspects of development is emphasised with the help of the empirical example of the programme of agricultural development begun in 1945 in the Zande District of Equatoria Province in the Sudan. Notes. |