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Contrasting experiences in rural industrialisation: are the East Asian successes transferable?
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The article was published on 1986-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Industrialisation & East Asia.read more
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Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
Abstract: "The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays a crucial role in sustaining rural populations, in servicing a growing and modern agriculture, and in supplying local consumer goods and services. In areas where landlessness prevails, rural nonfarm activity offers important economic alternatives for the rural poor....Three key groups currently intervene in the rural nonfarm economy: large private enterprises, non-profit promotional agencies and governments. Large modern corporations take investment, procurement and marketing decisions that powerfully shape opportunities in the rural nonfarm economy throughout much of the Third World...." The authors put forth three basic principles for policy makers who want to ensure equitable growth of the RNFE : (1) Identify key engines of regional growth; (2) Focus on subsector-specific supply chains; and (3) Build flexible institutional coalitions. They conclude that "a prosperous rural nonfarm economy can contribute to both aggregate economic growth and improved welfare of the rural poor." from Executive Summary.
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Rural nonagricultural activities in development: Theory and application
Gustav Ranis,Frances Stewart +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the potentially important role of rural nonagricultural activity in the development process, using the Hymer-Resnick Z-goods model as a point of departure, showing that its pessimistic conclusions are based on rather restrictive assumptions as applied to the colonial period.
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Agricultural technology and farm-nonfarm growth linkages
TL;DR: In this paper, an array of cross-section and time-series evidence bearing on the dynamics of the rural non-farm economy is reviewed and a simple model is introduced to isolate the effects of different technologies on nonfarm growth linkages.
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On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an explanation of the historical success of industrial enterprises owned by township and village governments in China. And they consider proposals for reform of town and village enterprise (TVE) ownership, and discuss the possible advantages of cooperative forms.
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Reform without a Theory: Why Does it Work in China?
TL;DR: This article explored the implications of China's reform for organization studies along three interrelated lines: structural plurality and strategic change, structural transformation and differential agency, and situated entrepreneurship and unintended consequences, concluding that reform-without-a-theory was facilitated by a set of historically specific structural factors, factors full of complementarities and tensions that skilled actors were able to exploit to pursue sectional interests.