Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

The Balance Between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development

  • Book
  • © 1989

Overview

Editors:
  1. Jeffrey G. Williamson

    1. Economics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi

    1. Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi, India

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Sector Proportions and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Theories of Sectoral Balance

      • Lance Taylor
      Pages 3-31

    3. Sector Proportions and Economic Development: The Evidence since 1950

      • Moshe Syrquin
      Pages 32-53

    4. Structural Change and Economic Growth in Developing Countries

      • Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi, R. G. Nambiar, R. Mehta
      Pages 54-84

    5. The Constraints on Industrialisation: Some Lessons from the First Industrial Revolution

      • Jeffrey G. Williamson
      Pages 85-105

    6. The Contribution of Agriculture to Economic Growth: Some Empirical Evidence

      • Erh-Cheng Hwa
      Pages 106-126

  3. Sector Proportions and Economic Development: Country Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Extensions of the Constant-Market-Shares Analysis with an Application to Long-term Export Data of Developing Countries

      • C. J. Jepma
      Pages 129-143

    3. Sources of Economic Growth and Structural Change: An International Comparison

      • Shujiro Urata
      Pages 144-166

    4. Korean Incentive Policies towards Industry and Agriculture

      • Danny M. Leipziger, Peter A. Petri
      Pages 167-189

    5. Sector Proportions and Growth in the Development of the Nigerian Economy

      • T. Ademola Oyejide
      Pages 190-218

    6. A Study of Linkages between Agriculture and Industry: the Indian Experience

      • Isher Judge Ahluwalia, C. Rangarajan
      Pages 219-250

  4. Industry versus Agriculture in East European Economies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Development of the Agro-industrial Complex in the USSR

      • L. V. Nikiforov
      Pages 253-263

    3. The Relationship between Industry and Agriculture in the Development of the Hungarian Economy

      • Csaba Csáki
      Pages 264-287

    4. Problems of an Industrial Economy with Intensive Agricultural Production: the German Democratic Republic

      • Wolfgang Heinrichs, Klaus Steinitz
      Pages 288-301

  5. Unbalanced Productivity Advance, Agriculture-led Development and Rural Activities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Rural Employment Linkages through Agricultural Growth: Concepts, Issues, and Questions

      • John W. Mellor
      Pages 305-319

    3. Agricultural Development-led Industrialisation in a Global Perspective

      • Irma Adelman, Jean-Marc Bourniaux, Jean Waelbroeck
      Pages 320-339
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This volume of papers from the Eighth World Congress deals with changes in proportions and growth rates of sectors of the economy in relation to economic development. It includes a survey of theories of sectoral balance and studies of structural transformation in the Kuznets traditon.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Economics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Jeffrey G. Williamson

  • Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi, India

    Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation