January 1st, 2012 | Filed under: Agricultural Economics

                                                       CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Economists through out the world are searching for what really are the major determinants of growth of an economy and different policies have been used in pursuit of the answers. The world as large has gone through a lot of economic problems, such as depressions of 1930s, 1970s and 1980s. The 1930 depression led to employing of the Keynesian policies of strict government intervention. However, the 1970s depression made policy makers lose faith in Keynesian economics. Nevertheless, most Third World countries continued with their central planning type of economic policies. There was strong disenchantment with this type of policies, which led growing number of economists and influential international development organisations to begin, in recent years, to advocate the increased use of the market mechanism that … Read entire article »