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Transforming Poor Economies: Effective Development Strategies for Agriculture and Industry
Edward Elgar
Transforming Poor Economies expertly proposes effective strategies for the development of agriculture and industry within lower income countries in continents such as Africa and Asia using insightful case studies to illustrate key findings.
■ Transforming Poor Economies: Effective Development Strategies for Agriculture and Industry
■ by Keijiro Otsuka
■ 244pp
■ December 2024
■ ISBN978-1-03533-928-0
Contents
1. Development economics for poverty reduction
PART I CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
2. Farm size, productivity, and agricultural development
3. Development paths of industrial clusters
PART II INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
4. History of the rice green revolution
5. Possibility of a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
6. Contract farming and high-value agriculture
PART III INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
7. Rapid development of industrial clusters in Asia
8. Buoyant development of industrial clusters in Africa
9. Foreign direct investment and industrial development
PART IV CONCLUSION
10. Innovations for development
11. Toward an economics of development strategies