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Author Varshney, Ashutosh

Title Beyond Urban Bias
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (455 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; I: Introduction; Urban Bias in Perspective; I. Town-Country Struggles in Development: A Brief Overview of Ideas; Agriculture and Industrialisation; The Political Issues; II. How Urban Bias is Reversed, Neutralised or Reduced; III. Concluding Remarks; II: Cases; The Origins of Agricultural Policy in Ivory Coast 1960-86; The Policy Environment in Comparative Perspective; Producer-Price Shares; Indirect Taxation: Exchange Rate Regimes; Extension Services and Marketing; Re-Investment of Tax Revenues in Agriculture
Farmers' IncomesThe Origins of a Favourable Policy Environment for Agriculture; Formative Experiences; Elite Landholdings; Agricultural Prices and Labour Demand; Economic Thought; Institutions, Agricultural Prices, and Public Investment: 1970-86; Agro-Industries and the Urban-Rural Alliance; New Urban-Rural Linkages; The Ressortissants and Dialogue; Côte D'Ivoire in Comparative Persepctive; Exceptions to Urban Bias in Latin America: Cuba and Costa Rica; The Setting; Cuba; Costa Rica; Conclusion; Economic Structure and the Politics of Sectoral Bias: East Asian and Other Cases; I. Introduction
II. Class and Choice-Theoretic ApproachesIII. Rational Choice Theories; Food Markets; Markets for Factors of Production and Consumer Goods; Refinements to the Model; Cash Crop Markets; IV. The Shift from Rural to Urban Bias; V. Rational Choice Analysis and the State; VI. The Rational Choice Analysis: East Asia; VII. The Political Subordination of East Asian Agriculture; East Asian Polities; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; Taiwan -- Exclusionary Institutions; Taiwan -- Participatory Institutions; VIII. Explaining the East Asian Puzzle; IX. The Limits of the Rational Choice Paradigm
X. The State and AgricultureReform and Urban Bias in China; Introduction; The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Incomes; Declining Agricultural Incomes: 1985 to the Present; Pricing Structure; Scissors Effect; IOUs; The Rise of Rural Industry and Peasant Incomes; Rural Industry and Narrowing of the Urban-Rural Gap; Urban Bias and the Power of the Communist State; Rural Bias in the East and South-east Asian Rice Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective; Models of Price Formation; The Institutional Context for Setting Rice Prices
A Statistical Analysis of Variance in Domestic Prices for Rice Relative to World PricesThe Political Economy of Rice Prices in Indonesia; Self-Limited Empowerment: Democracy, Economic Development and Rural India; I. The Changing Shape of India's Political Universe; Why Has Rural Power Risen: The Role of Democracy; II. Policy Outcomes for Farm Groups; Terms of the Existing Debate; Resolving the Debate: Constructing a Return Index and Its Results; III. The Disjunction Between the Political and the Economic: Proximate Causes; (i) The Role of Technology
Summary First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Notes (Ii) The Demand Constraint: How the Poor Affect the Income of Surplus Farmers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Poor -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Rural poor -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Poor
Rural poor
Armut
Ländlicher Raum
Wirtschaftspolitik
Kongress
Politische Elite
Stadt
Stad en platteland.
AGRICULTURAL POLICY.
AGRICULTURAL PRICES.
RURAL POPULATION.
COTE D'IVOIRE.
RURAL POVERTY.
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.
LATIN AMERICA.
FARMERS.
EAST ASIA.
RICE.
INDONESIA.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
RURAL AREAS.
INDIA.
PEASANTRY.
RURAL-URBAN DIFFERENTIALS.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135235062
1135235066