Causes of rural economic development
利用85个国家1960-2001年的数据，研究农业增长和农村收入背后的因素，发现农业部门增长与农业从业者人均收入增长相互独立，农业经济学并非理解农村收入与贫困的关键学科。
Abstract Underlying factors in the growth of agriculture as a sector and of rural incomes in developing countries are investigated, using data from 85 countries during 1960–2001. Hypotheses about growth are derived from both the general growth literature and the empirical literature on past agricultural growth in the United States and other industrial countries. The growth of agriculture as a sector is surprisingly independent of the growth of income per capita for those who work in that sector. Neither is necessary nor sufficient for the other. Agricultural economics is in many circumstances not the key discipline in understanding the economics of rural income and poverty.