Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Econometric analysis and agricultural and development plans / D. Gale Johnson, University of Chicago - Chicago - U.S.A.

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Econometric analysis and agricultural and development plans / D. Gale Johnson, University of Chicago - Chicago - U.S.A.

Collection:: Economics Books

MAHAL ANOBT [ am practically in agreement with all the points made in thi paper. I should just stress two or three points which seem to me {uv de of particular importance. Firstly, industrialisation as an essential condition for improvement of agricultural production. There has been a lot of unnecessary controversy in a country like India by raising the question which must you emphasise more, industry or agriculture? Both of course; there is no conflict between industry and agriculture. It is a simple but an extremely important point. Secondly, I was very much interested to see, on page 19, the sstimate of rate of growth of 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent in agriculture; such a rate of growth is absolutely necessary for economic development. In India it is necessary to have a rate of growth of the order of 7 per cent per year for the economy as a-whole. With population increasing more than two per cent per year, the per capita income would increase at the rate of 5 per cent per year and would double roughly in 15 years which would give some cause for hope. To achieve this it is necessary to have a rate of growth of the order of 4 per cent per year for agriculture. I should also entirely agree that demand estimates can be extremely useful; we have found this in India. In calculating income statistics, we have used a special method of arranging ‘he sample Johnson - pag.

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