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Agricultural development and the incidence of labour intensive farming: A theoretical analysis
Author(s) -
Lahiri Sajal
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.4010030304
Subject(s) - agriculture , poverty , economics , intensive farming , rural poverty , development economics , labour economics , agricultural economics , economic growth , geography , archaeology
This paper attempts to explain the secular and rapid decline in labour‐intensive farming and the sharp increase in rural‐urban migration in LDCs in terms of unequal agricultural development. It is also shown that such development causes absolute rural poverty to rise and national income in a labour‐abundant economy to fall.