"Criteria for Evaluating Agricultural Development Programs for Underdev" by Patrick J. Welch
 

Date of Award

5-1966

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Economics

Abstract

Economic models of agricultural development proposals are built on a series of "givens." For theorizing these are necessary, but for the analysis of agricultural development programs they become necessary evils. Social climates, political factions, and types of economic occurrences will not admit to having their impacts upon farm programs categorically subdued behind a lower case letter in an equation. People follow normal, everyday lives, not laws of behavior. Attitudes of the voting public lead to committee action at the Federal level and agricultural development policy is effected. Increases in yields can simultaneously be not good enough, satisfactory and too good. It is this attitude that has lead to what appears in the following pages. Agricultural development programs are far removed from the models upon which they were founded. In looking at what is being carried out in underdeveloped countries, "given a sound land tenure system" or "given a farm sector on the brink of commercialization" will not suffice. As put in that now famous line from that now famous musical comedy - "Wouldn't it be loverly."

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Department of Economics, Marquette University in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Senior Thesis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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