The Developing Economies · 1967 · 67 citations · 0 references
AgricultureAgricultural EconomicsNatural Resource EconomicsAgribusiness EconomicsAgricultural DevelopmentAgricultural PolicyAgricultural Production EconomicsAgricultural Resource ManagementChinese EconomyFarm Capital FormationFarm Resource ManagementInput Resource AllocationPolitical Economy Of Agriculture
The author has previously been engaged in a series of comparative studies on the role of the agricultural sector among the developing countries, being in doubt about the validity of the generally recognized view that in those countries much of the capital for industrialization has been supplied from this sector. For the purpose of re‐examining this view, in this article the author analyses the resource outflow‐inflow position of the agricultural sector in the Chinese economy and presents a grave question: Can the agricultural sector provide sufficient capital for industrial development in developing countries?