Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt: Study of the Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Land Productivity

by Graham Dyer

Overview

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a "stylized fact" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating this relationship, and the impact of economic and technological change on the relationship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714642451
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1977
Series:	Library of Peasant Studies , #15
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graham Dyer, Terence J. Byres

Table of Contents

Introduction The Present Study: Nature and Rationale; Chapter 1 The Nature of the Inverse Relationship and Its Apparent Policy Implications; Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches to the Inverse Relationship; Chapter 3 A Class-Based Approach and the Breakdown of the Inverse Relationship in the Dynamic Context; Chapter 4 The Evidence for an Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Egypt: A Shadow Debate; Chapter 5 The Political Economy of the Contemporary Egyptian Countryside; Chapter 6 A Disaggregated Analysis of the ILO Data: Technical Change and the Inverse Relationship in Egypt; Chapter 7 A Closer Look at the Inverse Relationship in the Context of Agrarian Transition: Evidence from Fieldwork in Rural Egypt; Chapter 8 A Positive Relationship Village in Qena and the Emerging Comparative Picture in the Context of Egyptian Agrarian Transition;