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Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt : Study of the Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Land Productivity.

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a ""stylized fact"" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating this relationship, and the impact of economic and technological change on the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dyer, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; INTRODUCTION The Present study: Nature and Rationale; I The Nature of the Inverse Relationship and its Apparent Policy Implications; Introduction; I.1 Some apparent policy implications; I.2 Conceptual, statistical and methodological problems; I.3 The inverse relationship vindicated and some conjoint relationships; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter I; II Theoretical Approaches to the Inverse Relationship: Qualitative and Quantitative Factor Differences; Introduction. 
505 8 |a II. 1 Management and labour quality hypothesesII. 2 Land fertility hypothesis; II. 3 Labour intensity and labour market dualism: the Sen model; II. 4 A critique of the marginalist approach; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter II; III A Class-Based Approach and the Breakdown of the Inverse Relationship in the Dynamic Context; Introduction; III. 1 Beyond the marginalist approach; III. 2 The inverse relationship in the context of backward agriculture; III. 3 The static nature of the Sen approach and the breakdown of the inverse relationship in the dynamic context; Summary and conclusions. 
505 8 |a Notes to Chapter IIIIV The Evidence for an Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Egypt: A Shadow Debate; Introduction; IV. 1 Some evidence for an inverse relationship in Egypt: Shepley, Radwan, Wilson and Mabro; IV. 2 Aggregation and land heterogeneity: Crouch et al.; IV. 3 The inverse relationship denied in Egypt: Platt and Commander; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter IV; V The Political Economy of the Contemporary Egyptian Countryside; Introduction; V.1 Agrarian reform and the consolidation of the rich peasantry; V.2 The agrarian elite and the co-operative system. 
505 8 |a v. 3 Rich peasants and co-operative creditV. 4 Implications with respect to the diffusion of modern technology of rich peasant bias in credit; V.5 The dominance of the rich peasantry and the political sphere; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter V; VI A Disaggregated Analysis of the ILO Data: Technical Change and the Inverse Relationship in Egypt; Introduction; VI. 1 The ILO survey and its characteristics; VI. 2 Analysis and results: (i) The Radwan regression and its questionable nature -- the need for a more disaggregated approach. 
505 8 |a VI. 3 Analysis and results: (ii) A digression on technological change in Egyptian agriculture, uneven development and regional heterogeneityVI. 4 Analysis and results: (iii) A disaggregated analysis and evidence of transition; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter VI; VII A Closer Look at the Inverse Relationship in the Context of Agrarian Transition: Evidence from Fieldwork in Rural Egypt; Introduction; VII. 1 Fieldwork methodology and problems; VII. 2 An inverse relationship village in Giza; VII. 3 The roots of the inverse relationship in Shubak; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter VII. 
500 |a VIII A Positive Relationship Village in Qena and the Emerging Comparative Picture in the Context of Egyptian Agrarian Transition. 
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