Social Scientist. v 9, no. 98-99 (Sept-Oct 1980) p. 29.


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products in ways that use up fewer of those sources which, in developing countries, are generally more scarce than farm labour: financial capital, capital goods (often imported) and other manufactured inputs. In this sense labour intensive methods may be more efficient overall as a use of society's resources, even though efficient' farming is normally thought to result from the use of non-labour inputs to enhance the productive efforts of the farmer", Shiomo Eckstcin, Gordon Donald, Douglas Hor tun and Thomas Garroll, "Land Reform in Latin America, Bolivien, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuala", World Bank Staff Working Paper No 275, April 1978, pp 116" 117, Quoted by Veronika Bcnnloldt—Thomscn, "Investment on the Poor:

Analysis of World Bank Policy", Part Two. Social Scientist, March 1980. Ashok Rudra aad Amartya Sen, op cit.



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