Modernising subordination? A South Asian perspective on the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
Modernising subordination? A South Asian perspective on the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
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使从属关系现代化?
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2009
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A. Akram‐Lodhi
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A. Akram‐Lodhi
The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development argues that the solution to rural poverty in South Asia is through commercial smallholder farming, rural waged labour in farm and non-farm activities, or outmigration. Critically evaluating the Report from a South Asian perspective on the basis of agrarian structure, market-led agrarian transformation, the power of monopoly capital, and the option of off-farm livelihoods, it is argued that the Report has a deeply flawed understanding of the process of capitalist development in rural South Asia. Its path-dependent vision of the future of agriculture is rooted in modernisation theory, and predicated on the continued subordination of the majority of those who live in the South Asian countryside.