Overview
- Reviews the diverse arguments of the potential role of agriculture within the realm of development theory
- Analyses periphery countries in the 19th and 20th centuries to challenge the notion that agriculture played a negligible role in promoting economic development
- Assesses the possible contribution of the agricultural sector to economic growth by analysing changes in agricultural production and productivity, and its relationship – per capita – to income levels
- Indicates the existence of positive relationships between agriculture and economic growth, by means of inter-sectoral links, technological and organizational improvements and simply the exploitation of comparative advantages in the rural setting
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction, Theory and World Approaches
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Front Matter
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Asia
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Keywords
- Economic Growth
- Agricultural Sector
- Nineteenth century
- Twentieth century
- Peripheral countries
- Economic Development
- Production and productivity
- Resource economics
- Agricultural Development
- Food trade
- Cocoa
- Rice delta
- Ricardian process
- Global economic history
- Labour economics
- Regional economics
- Spatial economics
About this book
This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer an understanding of the processes of agricultural transformations and their interaction with the overall economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Looking at the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the onset of modern economic growth – the book studies the relationship between agriculture and other economic sectors, exploring the use of resources (land, labour, capital) and the influence of institutional and technological factors in the long-run performance of agricultural activities. Pinilla and Willebald challenge the notion that agriculture played a negligible role in promoting economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the impulse towards industrialization in the developing world was more impactful.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vicente Pinilla is Professor in Economic History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has taught economic history since 1986 and held appointments at the University of Bristol, UK, London School of Economics, UK, University of California at Davis, US, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Henry Willebald is Professor in Development Economics and Economic History at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Barcelona, Spain, University of Zaragoza, Spain, and Groningen University, The Netherlands. He was formerly Director of Economic Research in Faculty of Economics, University of the Republic, Uruguay, and President of the Uruguayan Economic History Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Development in the World Periphery
Book Subtitle: A Global Economic History Approach
Editors: Vicente Pinilla, Henry Willebald
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66020-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66019-6Published: 16 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88155-3Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66020-2Published: 06 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 507
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Economic History, International Economics, Regional/Spatial Science