book chapter
Introduction [in Agriculture on the road to industrialization]
1995 | Pages: 24
Publisher(s): published for the international food policy research institute (ifpri) by johns hopkins university press
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Citation
Mellor, John W. 1995. Introduction. In Agriculture on the road to industrialization. Mellor, John W. (Ed.) Chapter 1. Pp. 1-22. Baltimore, MD: Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [by] Johns Hopkins University Press. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/129334
"The faster agriculture grows, the faster its relative size declines." That quotation from The Economics of Agricultural Development (Mellor 1966) still captures the essence of agricultural growth and its causal relationship to the structural transformation and aggregate growth of an economy.