Agricultural development in Ethiopia: Government budgeting and development assistance in the pre and post 1975 periods
分析了1975年前后埃塞俄比亚农村发展项目，指出国际捐助机构在其中的关键作用，并对比了前后政府预算分配与发展规划的变化。
Abstract An analysis of rural development programmes in pre‐ and post‐1975 Ethiopia demonstrates the importance of international donor agencies in rural development activities. Since pre‐1975 Development Plans largely neglected agriculture, current and capital expenditure budgets allocated few financial resources to agriculture. While acknowledging the importance of agriculture in promoting economic growth in its Third Five Year Plan, the Imperial Government recognised its lack of resources and absence of an articulated rural development plan and turned to donor agencies for both programme formulation and financing. The post‐1975 government, while continuing to utilise donor agency assistance, is not only allocating a greater proportion of capital expenditure to agriculture, but has also articulated specific rural development objectives within which it has outlined the role of donor agency assistance. Notes Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and Programme and Committee Staff, New York State Assembly Agriculture Committee. We would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the editors of the Journal and the referees, which have greatly improved the final product.