Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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An Induced Innovation Interpretation of Technical Change in Agriculture in Developed Countries
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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Author: Inducing Technological Change for Economic Growth and Development
Author: Robert A. SoloPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Compilation of interdisciplinary research conference papers on processes and agencies of technological change and technology transfer for economic development purposes - covers technology transfer in the construction industry, manufacturing and agriculture, communication (incl. Mass media) and diffusion of innovations, the role of universitys and multinational enterprise in international dissemination of management techniques. Conference held in ann arbor 1968.
Agricultural Development
Author: Yūjirō HayamiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Economic theory, agricultural development, role of technological change - economic model, comparison of agricultural production in developed countries and developing countries, role of science and agricultural technology in Japan and the USA, technology transfer, implications for agricultural policy. Graphs, references, statistical tables.
Technical Change and Social Conflict in Agriculture
Author: Martin E PineiroPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367305024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Incorporating case studies of technological change in six Latin American countries, this book presents the results of a large cooperative research project (PROTAAL) that has led to a new interpretation of the process of technical change in agricultural development. The contributors contrast the perspective emerging from PROTAAL with two other views of technical change in agriculture: the theory of induced innovation and the political economy approach. They then describe the methodology developed by PROTAAL, which is highlighted in their analysis of the case studies. In the concluding chapters, the authors address important issues concerning the organization of agricultural research activities at the national and international levels and consider theoretical and policy implications for the analysis of technical change in Latin American agriculture.
Author: Can Economic Growth Be Sustained?
Author: Vernon W. RuttanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199754357
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
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Endogenous Technological Change in U.S. Agriculture
Author: George B. FrisvoldPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Agricultural Transition in China
Author: Jun DuPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319769057
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book extends current research on the political economy of modern China, with particular regard to agricultural development and its role in economic transition. It uses Neoclassical principles to re-interpret agricultural growth and technological change under complex market institutions with empirical studies on China and selected East Asian economies. The text also questions how technological advances in China contribute to the Great Divergence debate. Through a comparative analysis of agricultural technical changes in the planting of rice paddies in Japan, Taiwan and China, Du finds that different market institutions and structures have given rise to considerable diversity of agricultural change between different economies in terms of the nature, timing and duration of technological transition. Such diversification has, in turn, affected the trajectories of agricultural and wider economic growth. Here, Du reflects on the nature of contemporary Chinese economic development and extends observations on agricultural transition to the entirety of Asia, finding that the nature, timing, and time-span of agriculture technology transitions have varied considerably across different economies.
Testing the Induced Innovation Hypothesis in South African Agriculture (An Error Correction Approach).
Author: Colin ThirtlePublisher:
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Languages : en
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November 1995 Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small-scale farmers. Current policies sustain the bias toward labor-saving technical change, hardly appropriate for a labor-surplus economy in which small farmers in the former homelands face a chronic scarcity of land. Thirtle, Townsend, and van Zyl investigate whether factor prices matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. Each stage of the analysis corroborates the inducement hypothesis, which implies that factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. The empirical results also suggest that observed rates and biases of technological change are influenced by average farm size, by spending on research and extension, and by favorable tax and interest-rate policies. In South Africa, the authors contend, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small-scale farmers. The lobbying power of the large commercial farmers, combined with policies followed under apartheid, must have influenced the allocation of research and development funds between labor- and land-saving technical change. This will have distorted the technological bias toward labor-saving technical change, which is hardly appropriate for a labor-surplus economy in which small farmers in the former homelands face a chronic scarcity of land. These results show that factor prices do matter in agricultural production and the selection of production technology. And there seems to be merit to the World Bank's usual policy prescription -- structural adjustment and market liberalization -- for economies in which prices are controlled and distorted. They investigate the role of factor prices by applying cointegration techniques to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage constant elasticity of substitution production function. This approach results in direct tests of the inducement hypothesis, which are applied to data for South African agriculture for the period 1947-92. They check the time series properties of the variables, establish cointegration, and construct an error correction model (ECM) that allows factor substitution to be separated from technological change. Finally, they subject the ECM formulation to tests of causality, which show that the factor price ratios induce the factor-saving biases of technological change. This paper --a product of the Office of the Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to design appropriate agricultural policies.