This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative...

List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : a critical look at two decades of market reform in India / Sudipta Bhattacharyya -- Development planning and the interventionist state versus liberalization and the neoliberal state : India, 1989-1996 / Terence J. Byres...

This paper offers an overview toward assessing the implementation of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) or Republic Act 8435, the country's landmark legislation on the sustainable and equitable development of its agriculture and fisheries. The study presents a Theory of...