Beyond Urban Bias

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; I: Introduction; Urban Bias in Perspective; I. Town-Country Struggles in Development: A Brief Overview of Ideas; Agriculture and Industrialisation; The Political Issues; II. How Urban Bias is Reversed, Neutralised or Reduced; III. Concluding Remarks; II: Cases; The Origins of Agricultural Policy in Ivory Coast 1960-86; The Policy Environment in Comparative Perspective; Producer-Price Shares; Indirect Taxation: Exchange Rate Regimes; Extension Services and Marketing; Re-Investment of Tax Revenues in Agriculture

Farmers' IncomesThe Origins of a Favourable Policy Environment for Agriculture; Formative Experiences; Elite Landholdings; Agricultural Prices and Labour Demand; Economic Thought; Institutions, Agricultural Prices, and Public Investment: 1970-86; Agro-Industries and the Urban-Rural Alliance; New Urban-Rural Linkages; The Ressortissants and Dialogue; Côte D'Ivoire in Comparative Persepctive; Exceptions to Urban Bias in Latin America: Cuba and Costa Rica; The Setting; Cuba; Costa Rica; Conclusion; Economic Structure and the Politics of Sectoral Bias: East Asian and Other Cases; I. Introduction

II. Class and Choice-Theoretic ApproachesIII. Rational Choice Theories; Food Markets; Markets for Factors of Production and Consumer Goods; Refinements to the Model; Cash Crop Markets; IV. The Shift from Rural to Urban Bias; V. Rational Choice Analysis and the State; VI. The Rational Choice Analysis: East Asia; VII. The Political Subordination of East Asian Agriculture; East Asian Polities; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; Taiwan - Exclusionary Institutions; Taiwan - Participatory Institutions; VIII. Explaining the East Asian Puzzle; IX. The Limits of the Rational Choice Paradigm

X. The State and AgricultureReform and Urban Bias in China; Introduction; The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Incomes; Declining Agricultural Incomes: 1985 to the Present; Pricing Structure; Scissors Effect; IOUs; The Rise of Rural Industry and Peasant Incomes; Rural Industry and Narrowing of the Urban-Rural Gap; Urban Bias and the Power of the Communist State; Rural Bias in the East and South-east Asian Rice Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective; Models of Price Formation; The Institutional Context for Setting Rice Prices

A Statistical Analysis of Variance in Domestic Prices for Rice Relative to World PricesThe Political Economy of Rice Prices in Indonesia; Self-Limited Empowerment: Democracy, Economic Development and Rural India; I. The Changing Shape of India's Political Universe; Why Has Rural Power Risen: The Role of Democracy; II. Policy Outcomes for Farm Groups; Terms of the Existing Debate; Resolving the Debate: Constructing a Return Index and Its Results; III. The Disjunction Between the Political and the Economic: Proximate Causes; (i) The Role of Technology

(ii) The Demand Constraint: How the Poor Affect the Income of Surplus Farmers

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