Economia de Desenvolvimento Agrrio Rural

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Economia de Desenvolvimento Agrário (Rural)

• Lecture notes
• 18 February 2008

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My co-ordinates

• t.alberts_at_devpro.se
• My new Web Site
• http//web.comhem.se/t.alberts
• I will try to up-load lecture notes etc onto my
  Web Site.
• 82 39 62 600

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Major textbook

• Todaro, Michael P. and Smith, Stephen C.It is a
  big book with lots of useful references
• For students visit www.aw-bc.com/todaro_smith

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Perhaps a book case studies with an important
bearing on policy making and economic analysis

• Theoretical Framework
• Wasting Water. Peru 1979 and Swaziland 1998, the
  same sad story
• Vested Interests in Action. Two Multinational
  Companies in Argentina 1985
• Using Scarce Resources Better. Mission
  Impossible?
• The Choice of Technology Revisited

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To be highlighted

• Millenium Goals P. 24
• For Mozambique http//www.mdgmonitor.org/country_
  progress.cfm?cMOZcd508
• Multitude of classification schemes of countries
  perhaps most widely used is the IBRD
• Low income countries LICs
• Lower-middle-income-countries LMCs
• Upper-middle-income-countries UMCs
• High-income-OECD countries
• Other-high income countries

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What is development?

• GDP, GNI, GNP etc most would agree that these
  indices are inadequate.
• PPI (Purchasing Power Parity
• Big Mac Index
• Distributional aspects

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Source Todaro and Smith, p. 54
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Mozambique 1997-2003 (WB)

• Labour employment
• growth gt10 per year in
• Services
• Trade
• Construction
• Education

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Human Development IndexHDI

• Todaro and Smith, pp. 59-64
• And Excel file

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From on-going MA research

• If you would visit a peasant family and ask them
  about the sources of their income, what do you
  think would be the answer?
• Less than 20 originates from non-farm
  activities?
• Between 20 and 30?
• Between 30 and 40?
• More than 40?

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Some questions

• Is the research relevant for Mozambique?
• Does it have policy implications?
• Is it researchable?
• What else