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Resource Endowments and Agricultural Development: Africa versus Asia

In: The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Economic Development

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  • Jean-Philippe Platteau

    (University of Namur)

  • Yujiro Hayami

    (Aoyama Gakuin University)

  • Partha Dasgupta

    (University of Cambridge)

Abstract

This chapter aims to examine the sources of agricultural stagnation/ deterioration in Sub-Saharan Africa by contrasting it with the agricultural growth experience in Asia, and East Asia in particular. An important and well-documented feature of the East Asian model of economic development is the considerable success of the countries concerned in expanding their agricultural sector. This success enabled them to provide more or less regular employment to a growing rural population before urban industrialization was advanced enough to absorb large numbers of workers (Fei, Ranis and Kuo, 1979; Morley, 1982, ch. 11). In the case of some countries (most notably, Japan and Taiwan), expansion of rural employment opportunities and incomes was greatly helped by a decentralized pattern of industrialization that resulted in the development of numerous rural industries (Smith, 1959; Ho, 1979). Moreover, since food supply increased rapidly, instead of being diverted to food imports, foreign exchange earnings could be reserved for importing capital and intermediate goods needed by modern industries.

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  • Jean-Philippe Platteau & Yujiro Hayami & Partha Dasgupta, 1998. "Resource Endowments and Agricultural Development: Africa versus Asia," International Economic Association Series, in: Yujiro Hayami & Masahiko Aoki (ed.), The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Economic Development, chapter 12, pages 357-412, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-26928-0_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26928-0_12
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    1. Frankema, Ewout & Papaioannou, Kostadis, 2017. "Withdrawn Paper," CEPR Discussion Papers 11795, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Ohe, Yasuo, 2006. "On the Relationship between Multifunctionality and Hamlet Activities as a Rural Institution," Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ), vol. 8, pages 1-17.
    3. Ashima Goyal, 2005. "Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver - Employment Guarantee in India," Labor Economics Working Papers 22364, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    4. Quibria, M.G., 2002. "Growth and Poverty: Lessons from the East Asian Miracle Revisited," MPRA Paper 2638, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Tsuda, Shunsuke, 2022. "Refugee inflows, surplus farm labor, and crop marketization in rural Africa," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
    6. Goyal, Ashima, 2010. "Making politicians and bureaucrats deliver: decentralization and interlinked tasks," MPRA Paper 41416, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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