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THIS paper started out as a paper on the role of agriculture in the economic development of the Argentine. In effect, this is still what it is. But it is more, for to discuss the role of agriculture one needs to understand the nature of the development process of the economy as a whole. In seeking this broader understanding we have, to our minds, resolved the apparent paradox of inflation coupled with stagnation and heavy unemployment that has characterised the recent history of the Argentine economy. In doing so, we believe that we reveal previous diagnoses and policy prescriptions to have been grounded in fallacy. We have tried to build a model in which the strategic assumptions covering the choice of relevant variables and their magnitudes reflect the realities of the Argentinian situation. This we set out in Section II. In Sections III and IV we set the model to work introducing some additional assumptions, in particular as to government policies and money wage changes. Section V contains a commentary on the devaluations of 1958 and 1962 analysed in the light of the model. Our analysis has policy implications, which we discuss in Section VI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development take-offs have been rare in the argricultural sectors of the newly emerging countries. In fact, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, development planning has not succeeded in producing dramatic change and upsurge, despite the considerable investment which has been committed to this primary sector. A renewed effort to generate greater increases in productivity is now underway in India, Pakistan and other developing economies. The investment in irrigation, with its demand for new techniques of farming, new crops, and new markets, has occasionally been the exception in the general farm picture. This paper discusses an approach and a focus in the planning process which is paying off in the small but significant Middle Eastern country of Jordan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Northern Ghana is Ghana's problem region. It is a large area accounting for about half the total land surface of Ghana, yet it is the least developed part of the country. It would be futile to seek to explain the lack of economic development in the region mainly with reference to the problems of the savanna environment, which indeed are no more serious than in many other parts of West Africa where there has been greater economic development. The reason must be sought primarily in the strategy adopted for economic development, which at first failed to identify the fundamental problems of low productivity in food farming and high transport costs. Later, the solution of the transport problem was made conditional upon the success of the measures adopted for increasing agricultural productivity; yet these measures proved to be partially unrealistic since they ignored long-established local values and preferences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]