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Title:Economic growth and community development
Author:Howman, R.G.ISNI
Year:1968
Periodical:Rhodesian Journal of Economics
Volume:2
Issue:3
Pages:25-37
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:agricultural development
community development
Abstract:For some 40 years the 21 million persons in the Rhodesian tribal areas have been thought about as a mass of individuals who have increased from 565, 000 in 1928 to over 2,5 million. All planning was based on an approach to individuals-how to change the isolated, independent cultivator on his patch of land; how to persuade or force him to increase his productivity. When after the first 20 years the efforts to change him by demonstration and persuasion failed, policy changed to 'compulsory planned production under discipline to ensure progress', and for some 15 years African agriculture was revolutionised under the Land Husbandry Plan. For many reasons the Plan came to an end because a human barrier lay between technical knowledge and the soil, and there had been no increased per capita production. Main purpose of this exercise is to discuss the nature of this human barrier, this 'socio-pisycho-logical barrier' as J.L. Sadie calls it in 'Planning for the Economic Development of Rhodesia' (1967) Conclusion is that the 'causes' of economic growth lie in the community development field not in that of primary development.
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