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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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Gibson, L.J., Nelson, J.B. (1997). Value Added in Agriculture as a Regional Development Strategy. In: Chatterji, M., Kaizhong, Y. (eds) Regional Science in Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_6
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