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Resource Endowments and Agricultural Development: Africa versus Asia

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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.

We gratefully acknowledge the useful comments made by Partha Dasgupta, Kenneth Arrow, Douglass North, Masahiko Aoki, Michael Kevane, David Feeny, Keijiro Otsuka, Abhijit Banerjee, Dani Rodrick, Gustav Ranis, Eric Thorbecke and Ammar Siamwalla. Responsibility for the views expressed in this paper remain entirely ours, however.

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Platteau, JP., Hayami, Y., Dasgupta, P. (1998). Resource Endowments and Agricultural Development: Africa versus Asia. In: Hayami, Y., Aoki, M. (eds) The Institutional Foundations of East Asian Economic Development. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26928-0_12

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