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Agricultural Growth, Landlessness, Off-Farm Employment, and Rural Poverty in the Philippines

UPSE DP 1991-01
1991

Rapid agricultural growth has been suggested as an alternative development strategy for less-developed countries. The paper shows that rapid agricultural growth, as demonstrated by the Philippine experience in the 1960s and 1970s, is not enough to pull the

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  1. Coxhead, Ian A. and Warr, Peter G., 1995 "Does Technical Progress In Agriculture Alleviate Poverty? A Philippine Case Study" , (via RePEc)

  2. Warr, Peter G. and Wollmer, Frances, 1996 "The Demand For Ldc Exports Of Primary Commodities: The Case Of The Philippines" , (via RePEc)

  3. Rola-Rubzen et al., 2001 "Agricultural economists and world poverty: progress and prospects" , (via RePEc)

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UP-School of Economics
Authors
Balisacan, Arsenio M.
Keywords
rural poor; poverty; rural sector; agricultural performance
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