Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt: A Study of the Inverse Relationship Between Farm Size and Land Productivity

ISBN-13: 9780714647074 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 232 str.

Graham Dyer; Terence J. Byres

Opis

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is widely accepted as a stylised fact of agriculture in developing countries, a generalised phenomenon observed in widely differing agro-climatic conditions and agrarian structures.

Spis treści

Introduction The Present Study: Nature and Rationale; Chapter 1 The Nature of the Inverse Relationship and Its Apparent Policy Implications; Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches to the Inverse Relationship; Chapter 3 A Class-Based Approach and the Breakdown of the Inverse Relationship in the Dynamic Context; Chapter 4 The Evidence for an Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Egypt: A Shadow Debate; Chapter 5 The Political Economy of the Contemporary Egyptian Countryside; Chapter 6 A Disaggregated Analysis of the ILO Data: Technical Change and the Inverse Relationship in Egypt; Chapter 7 A Closer Look at the Inverse Relationship in the Context of Agrarian Transition: Evidence from Fieldwork in Rural Egypt; Chapter 8 A Positive Relationship Village in Qena and the Emerging Comparative Picture in the Context of Egyptian Agrarian Transition;

O autorze

Graham Dyer, Terence J. Byres