Suchergebnisse

Part I: A Global Overview of Agriculture -- Agricultural Development in a Changing World / Shenggen Fan and Keijiro Otsuka -- Global Issues in Agricultural Development / Mark W. Rosegrant, Shenggen Fan, and Keijiro Otsuka -- Part II: Regional Issues in Agricultural Development -- Changing Farm Size and Agricultural Development in East Asia / Futoshi Yamauchi, Jikun Huang, and Keijiro Otsuka -- Agricultural Development and Modernization in South Asia / Hiroyuki Takeshima, Anjani Kumar, Akhter Ahmed and P. K. Joshi -- Africa's Unfolding Agricultural Transformation / Ousmane Badiane, Xinshen Diao, and Thomas Jayne -- Duality, Urbanization, and Modernization of Agrifood Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Ruben G. Echeverría -- Agricultural Development and Food Security in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Saule Burkitbayeva, William Liefert, and Johan Swinnen -- Regional Experiences: What Have We Learned? / Keijiro Otsuka and Shenggen Fan -- Part III: Context for Agricultural Development -- Agricultural Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction / Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow -- Agriculture and Undernutrition / Derek Headey, William A. Masters, and Sophie Goudet -- Transformation of the Rural Economy / Keijiro Otsuka and Xiaobo Zhang -- Food Value Chain Transformation in Developing Regions / Thomas Reardon and Bart Minten -- Agricultural Development and International Trade / Kym Anderson and Will Martin -- The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies / Johan Swinnen -- Gender, Household Behavior, and Rural Development / Cheryl Doss and Agnes Quisumbing -- Credit for Agricultural Development / Shahidur R. Khandker -- Agricultural Insurance for Development: Past, Present, and Future / Miguel Robles -- Natural Resource Management and Resource Rights for Agriculture / Frank Place, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Hosaena Ghebru -- Part IV: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Agricultural Development -- Climate Change and Agricultural Development / Mark W. Rosegrant, Keith Wiebe, Timothy B. Sulser, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, and Dirk Willenbockel -- The Role of Water in Supporting Food Security: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go / Claudia Ringler, Nicostrato Perez, and Hua Xie -- Future of Agricultural Research / David Zilberman -- Reshaping Agrifood Systems to Achieve Multiple Development Goals / Shenggen Fan and Keijiro Otsuka.

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the 'initial conditions' and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.

This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present. Industrial districts, which refer to the geographical concentration of enterprises producing similar or closely related commodities in a small area, play a significant role in the development of manufacturing industries not only historically in Europe and Japan but also at present in emerging East Asian economies, such as China and Vietnam and low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The book identifies similarities in the development patterns of industrial districts in history and the present and analyzes the reasons for these similarities. More specifically, the book examines whether Marshallian agglomeration economies provide sufficient explanations and seeks to deepen understanding about the important factors that are missing. Despite the common issues addressed by economic historians and development economists regarding the advantages of industrial districts for industrial development, discussion of these issues between the two groups of researchers has been largely absent, or at best weak. The purpose of this book is to integrate the results of case studies by economic historians interested in France, Spain, and Japan and those by development economists interested in the contemporary industries still developing in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.