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The Impact of the Urban Income per capita on the Agricultural Output: A Case Study of pre-1975 Iran

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The purpose of this paper is to test the impact of urban demand on agricultural output. The first part of the paper is a review of some of the theories of unlimited supply of labour and their applicability to the Iranian agricultural sector. The second part is devoted to building a model and testing it.

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  1. Higgins, B., Economic Development, Problems, Principles and Policies (New York: W. W. Norton, 1968).

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  2. Lewis, W. A. Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour, The Manchester School of Economics and Social Studies, May 1954.

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  5. Yong Sam Cho, Disguised Unemployment in Underdeveloped Areas, with Special Reference to South Korean Agriculture (Berkeley, 1963).

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  6. Quoted by J. W. Millo, ‘Toward a Theory of Agricultural Development’ in Southworth, M. and Johnson, B. F. (eds) Agricultural Development and Economic Growth (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1968) pp. 25–6.

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  7. Ibid, p. 40.

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Afshar, K. (1985). The Impact of the Urban Income per capita on the Agricultural Output: A Case Study of pre-1975 Iran. In: Afshar, H. (eds) Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17966-4_3

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