Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

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

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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

1142 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA - 28 have attempted to intervene in a wide variety of ways to affect agricultural development. In the United States there has been systematic intervention in agricultural development through policies for the settlement of the frontier, the establish- ment of the land grant colleges and the associated experiment stations and extension services. The British Corn Laws, which have recently been reincarnated across the English Channel as the Common Agricultural Policy, could be described as an agricultural development plan in the loose sense in which the term is often used today. The past three decades has witnessed a significant change in the scope and content of agricultural plans or policies. All of the major industrial nations have evolved numerous measu- res and programs in an effort to achieve a variety of objectives in agriculture and for the farm population. Many of the less developed countries have enunciated far reaching agricultural development plans. One thing that is clear from the events of the last three decades, at least to me, is that there is no magic that follows from a development plan or policy. Order and progress have not been created out of chaos. It cannot be said that today the agricultural problems confronting the world or any large part of it are any nearer solution than was true three decades ago. In fact, I believe that in most of the industrial countries the magnitude of the very difficult adjustment pro- blems now facing agriculture is to a considerable degree the consequence of the agricultural plans and policies that have been followed. The preliminary outline of the Study Week included the following sentence: « The development of economic theory and recent experience of various economic svstems have bv now objectives have not been achievable given the quantities of resources implied in the plans. In addition, past performance has indicated that goals for certain kev input aguantities such as fertilizers would not be achieved. 161 Johnson - pag. »

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