What Have We Learned? The Role of Government in Agricultural Development
Author(s)
Timmer, C. Peter
Abstract
The chapters in this volume are on diverse topics and do not add up to a systematic treatise on the role of the state in agricultural development. Still, there is an underlying consistency to the key themes these chapters pursue, a consistency that should give pause to proponents of free markets and minimal state intervention as the surest path to riches. In any given empirical context, it is difficult to judge whether government interventions or market forces would be most effective in promoting economic development and broad-based increases in material welfare.
