-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …

A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly … entrepreneurs and make a distinction between survivalist self-employment activities in the traditional sector, and opportunity …-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there is abundant marginal land for cultivation, they serve to absorb rural … the modern sector and traditional agriculture on marginal land. …

This study examines the nature of economic stagnation in the majority of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and … discusses different approaches to structural transformation of their traditional agriculture-based economies. The argument is … experiences of East Asian and other countries in their early stage of economic development along with those of SSA to understand …

-Saharan Africa (SSA) and discusses different approaches to the structural transformation of their traditional agriculture … broad-based agricultural development in transforming traditional agriculture-based economies. In particular, it posits that … of economic development. In explaining the mechanism leading to the economic takeoff, it focuses on potential roles of …

This chapter takes an analytical look at the potential role of agriculture in contributing to economic growth, and …