The balance between industry and agriculture in economic development proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Delhi, India. Vol.2, Sector proportions

This volume of papers from the Eighth World Congress deals with changes in proportions and growth rates of sectors of the economy in relation to economic development. It includes a survey of theories of sectoral balance and studies of structural transformation in the Kuznets traditon. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Theories of Sectoral Balance....Pages 3-31 Sector Proportions and Economic Development: The Evidence since 1950....Pages 32-53 Structural Change and Economic Growth in Developing Countries....Pages 54-84 The Constraints on Industrialisation: Some Lessons from the First Industrial Revolution....Pages 85-105 The Contribution of Agriculture to Economic Growth: Some Empirical Evidence....Pages 106-126 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Extensions of the Constant-Market-Shares Analysis with an Application to Long-term Export Data of Developing Countries....Pages 129-143 Sources of Economic Growth and Structural Change: An International Comparison....Pages 144-166 Korean Incentive Policies towards Industry and Agriculture....Pages 167-189 Sector Proportions and Growth in the Development of the Nigerian Economy....Pages 190-218 A Study of Linkages between Agriculture and Industry: the Indian Experience....Pages 219-250 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 The Development of the Agro-industrial Complex in the USSR....Pages 253-263 The Relationship between Industry and Agriculture in the Development of the Hungarian Economy....Pages 264-287 Problems of an Industrial Economy with Intensive Agricultural Production: the German Democratic Republic....Pages 288-301 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 Rural Employment Linkages through Agricultural Growth: Concepts, Issues, and Questions....Pages 305-319 Agricultural Development-led Industrialisation in a Global Perspective....Pages 320-339 The Role of Nonfarm Activities in the Rural Economy....Pages 340-366 Rural Resource Mobility and Intersectoral Balance in Early Modern Growth....Pages 367-389 Productivity Change and Growth in Industry and Agriculture: An International Comparison....Pages 390-413 Back Matter....Pages 415-427 V. 1. Basic Issues / Edited By Kenneth J. Arrow -- V. 2. Sector Proportions / Edited By Jeffrey G. Williamson And Vadiraj R. Panchamukhi -- V. 3. Manpower And Transfers / Edited By Sukhamoy Chakravarty -- V. 4. Social Effects / Edited By Irma Adelman And Sylvia Lane -- V. 5. Factors Influencing Change / Edited By Nurul Islam. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes. The basic issues treated in these plenary papers, placed in an historical perspective in Part 2, deal with some of the economic theories which were relevant in the past and assesses their relevance to the problems and policies of today with an analysis of the lessons to be learnt.