WE ARE LIVING in an unusual era in demographic history. For thousands of years, world
population grew at a snail's pace, so slowly, in fact, that it took over 1 million years for …

This essay reviews some of the main interpretations in development studies on agriculture's
contribution to economic development. It explores the relationship between agriculture and …

The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-
date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an …

How important is agricultural growth to poverty reduction? This article first sets out the
theoretical reasons for expecting agricultural growth to reduce poverty. Several plausible …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

O que é a modernização agrícola? Onde, quando e como ela se deu? Por que muitos
países razoavelmente industrializados continuam a ter agriculturas atrasadas? Como será o …

A data envelopment analysis of a sample of 76 Nepalese rice farmers reveals average
relative economic, allocative, technical, pure technical and scale inefficiencies as 34, 13, 24 …

We seek to address formally the question raised by Gardner (2003) in his Elmhirst lecture as
to the direction of causality between agricultural value added per worker and Gross …

This book reviews the major theories and attempts critically to examine alternative
explanations for famine, describing their implications for preventative policies and corrective …

Polly Hill's provocative book examines the disastrous gulf that separates development
economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the …