Class, state and agricultural productivity in Egypt : a study of the inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity / / Graham Dyer ; foreword by Terence J. Byres

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822014103321
• Autore: Dyer Graham <1958, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-135-21189-2; 1-315-03643-6; 1-135-21182-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Collana: Library of Peasant Studies ; ; Number 15
• Disciplina: 338.1/6
• Soggetti: Farms, Size of - Egypt; Agricultural productivity - Egypt; Peasants - Egypt; Agriculture and state - Egypt
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1997 by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; INTRODUCTION The Present study: Nature and Rationale; I The Nature of the Inverse Relationship and its Apparent Policy Implications; Introduction; I.1 Some apparent policy implications; I.2 Conceptual, statistical and methodological problems; I.3 The inverse relationship vindicated and some conjoint relationships; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter I; II Theoretical Approaches to the Inverse Relationship: Qualitative and Quantitative Factor Differences; Introduction; II.1 Management and labour quality hypothesesII.2 Land fertility hypothesis; II.3 Labour intensity and labour market dualism: the Sen model; II.4 A critique of the marginalist approach; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter II; III A Class-Based Approach and the Breakdown of the Inverse Relationship in the Dynamic Context; Introduction; III.1 Beyond the marginalist approach; III.2 The inverse relationship in the context of backward agriculture; III.3 The static nature of the Sen approach and the breakdown of the inverse ; relationship in the dynamic context; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter IIIIV The Evidence for an Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Egypt: A Shadow Debate; Introduction; IV.1 Some evidence for an inverse relationship in Egypt: Shepley, Radwan, Wilson and Mabro; IV.2 Aggregation and land heterogeneity: Crouch et al.; IV.3 The inverse relationship denied in Egypt: Platt and Commander; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter IV; V The Political Economy of the Contemporary Egyptian Countryside; Introduction; V.1 Agrarian reform and the consolidation of the rich peasantry; V.2 The agrarian elite and the co-operative system; V.3 Rich peasants and co-operative creditV.4 Implications with respect to the diffusion of modern technology of rich peasant bias in credit; V.5 The dominance of the rich peasantry and the political sphere; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter V; VI A Disaggregated Analysis of the ILO Data: Technical Change and the Inverse Relationship in Egypt; Introduction; VI.1 The ILO survey and its characteristics; VI.2 Analysis and results: (i) The Radwan regression and its questionable nature - the need for a more disaggregated approach; VI.3 Analysis and results: (ii) A digression on technological change in Egyptian agriculture, uneven development and regional heterogeneityVI.4 Analysis and results: (iii) A disaggregated analysis and evidence of transition; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter VI; VII A Closer Look at the Inverse Relationship in the Context of Agrarian Transition: Evidence from Fieldwork in Rural Egypt; Introduction; VII.1 Fieldwork methodology and problems; VII.2 An inverse relationship village in Giza; VII.3 The roots of the inverse relationship in Shubak; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter VII; VIII A Positive Relationship Village in Qena and the Emerging Comparative Picture in the Context of Egyptian Agrarian Transition
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.