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INDUSTRIALIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY
Author(s) -
HAYAMI YoJIRo
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
the developing economies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1746-1049
pISSN - 0012-1533
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1049.1969.tb00796.x
Subject(s) - industrialisation , agriculture , productivity , comparative advantage , phenomenon , agricultural productivity , economics , agricultural economics , international trade , order (exchange) , natural resource economics , economic geography , geography , economic growth , market economy , physics , archaeology , finance , quantum mechanics
This paper is based on the observation that while agricultural productivity in less developed countries whose comparative advantage seems to lie in agriculture is growing slowly relative to agriculture in developed countries. In order to explain this phenomenon, we have established a hypothesis that industrialization promotes agricultural development by improving the conditions of supply of modern inputs to agriculture. This hypothesis is tested on international comparisons and the analysis of Japanese experience.