Functions of Agriculture in Strategies of Growth in Centrally Planned Economies

In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 9-14

Abstract

An analysis of the role of agriculture in the growth strategies of centrally planned (socialist) economies. Three basic models of this role are traced historically & identified in recent economic reforms: (1) putting urban interests before those of the agricultural sector; (2) the stabilizing, or passive, role of agriculture in the national economy; (3) a balanced treatment of agriculture in the national economy. A. Cole