Agricultural Technology and Farm–Nonfarm Growth Linkages
探讨农业技术如何影响农村非农经济活动增长，通过回顾横截面和时间序列证据，并构建模型分析不同技术参数对非农关联的作用。
Abstract Agricultural growth stimulates rural nonfarm activity by boosting demand for production inputs and consumer goods. But different kinds of agricultural technology promote different patterns of nonfarm linkages. To explore how key features of agricultural technology affect growth in the rural nonfarm economy, this paper reviews an array of cross‐section and time‐series evidence bearing on the dynamics of the rural nonfarm economy. Then, using consumption and production parameters associated with different agricultural technologies, it introduces a simple model which isolates the effects of different technologies on nonfarm growth linkages.