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Value Added in Agriculture as a Regional Development Strategy

In: Regional Science in Developing Countries

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  • Lay James Gibson
  • James B. Nelson

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The World Bank describes China as a ‘low income economy’, whereas it calls the USA a ‘high income economy’ (and in between are the middle- and upper-middle income economies.) In recent years, economic growth in China has been impressive, but it is still a relatively poor country, with employment focused on the primary sector in general, and on the food and fibre-producing agriculture element in particular. The USA, in contrast, is a rich country where conspicuous change is more likely to come in terms of productivity shifts than in terms of employment shifts. The primary sector is a small employer and it plays a very different role in the US development agenda from that in the Chinese development agenda.

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  • Lay James Gibson & James B. Nelson, 1997. "Value Added in Agriculture as a Regional Development Strategy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Manas Chatterji & Yang Kaizhong (ed.), Regional Science in Developing Countries, chapter 6, pages 74-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25459-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_6
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