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Title:Development strategies and the rural poor
Author:Saith, AshwaniISNI
Year:1989
Issue:66
Pages:76
Language:English
Series:Working papers, General series (ISSN 0921-0210)
City of publisher:The Hague
Publisher:Institute of Social Studies
Geographic term:developing countries
Subjects:economic development
economic policy
rural poverty
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1765/18807
Abstract:With few exceptions, the process of economic growth in the developing economies in the postwar period has been characterized by a persistence, and more recently probably an intensification, of rural poverty. The primacy accorded universally to accelerated industrialization in Third World development strategies cast the rural sector functionally in a resource-providing supportive role. However, for most developing economies, industrialization has been, and is likely to remain, unable to generate any significant Lewisian trickle-down flows. Indeed, the relative failure of industrialization in Africa has created structural conditions and fresh accumulating debt burdens which have generally prevented the retention and productive utilization of the agricultural surplus within the rural sector. A reorientation of the growth process along 'agriculture first' lines is also unlikely to create trickle-down effects which have a strong enough impact on rural poverty so long as it is based on emphasizing export orientation and technological intensification within institutionally inequitable and ecologically fragile systems. Neither piecemeal reactive policy interventions nor structural adjustment packages provide viable general solutions.
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