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100	1		_aCrosson, Pierre R.
245	1	0	_aAgricultural development and productivity : _blessons from the Chilean experience /
260			_aBaltimore, _bPublished for Resources for the Future, by Johns Hopkins Press _cc1970
300			_axvi, 198 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aThis book investigates the performance of Chilean agriculture in the 1950's by trying to: (1) determine in what respects Chilean agriculture fell short of its potential during this period; (2) offer some tentative explanations for the shortfall; and (3) serve as a model for the use of agricultural production analysis in planning agencies of developing economies. The analysis, which is organized around a production function-that is, a technical relation between outputs and efficiently used inputs-may be subdivided into four major parts: (1) an aggregate description of the institutional framework in which Chilean agriculture operated and of the agricultural product and input changes that occurred in the 1950's; (2) a comparison of the estimated marginal returns from using an additional unit of various inputs with the cost of such inputs, all based on an estimated cross-section production function for a sample of approximately 200 irrigated farms in one of the main agricultural provinces for the 1958-1959 crop year; (3) an examination of the sources of differences between high and low productivity farms in the same sample; and (4) a discussion of potentials and limitations of using these procedures as part of the tool kit of agricultural planners in developing countries.
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591			_aLoans
650		0	_aAgriculture
650		0	_aAgricultural development
650		0	_aAgricultural productivity
710	2		_aResources for the Future.
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949			_a338.1'0983 CRO
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