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- Title
Technological Policy and Agricultural Development.
- Authors
Barraclough, Solon; Schatan, Jacobo
- Abstract
The growing attention to the role of technology in economic development is not limited to the developed countries where the major thrust of the technical and scientific developments of the twentieth century originated. The developing countries have also begun to place a greater emphasis on the analysis of technological strategies affecting their agriculture and industry. The principal reason For the increasing emphasis in the developing countries is that technological developments have conflicting effects on the welfare of large groups in their populations. The somber neo-Malthusianism of the early sixties has given way to the optimistic view that science and technology-properly applied will be capable of freeing millions of rural workers from poverty and starting them on the road to prosperity. Not surprisingly, many academics and policy-makers believe the key to agricultural development ties mainly in the application of new technology. Obviously, the effects of technology on different social classes depend upon the social structure of each country.
- Subjects
LATIN America; AGRICULTURAL innovations; ECONOMIC development; TECHNOLOGY &; society; AGRICULTURAL development; AGRICULTURE; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; GOVERNMENT policy; RURAL industries; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Land Economics, 1973, Vol 49, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145281