Intro -- Preface -- Préface -- List of contributors / Liste des auteurs -- Introductions -- Absorptive capacity for foreign aid -- La capacity d'absorption de l'aide extérieure -- Transmission of techniques and skills in foreign aid -- Transfert de techniques dans le cadre de l'aide...

Investigating the process of agrarian change, this book analyzes costs and productivity under the main systems of primitive agriculture. The conclusion is that technical, economic and social changes are unlikely to take place within primitive agriculture unless the rural community concerned is...