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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
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.
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