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The policy pattern for maximizing income growth indicated by this analysis stresses rural education and an extension of livestock farming coupled with less overall reliance on agriculture, and a reduction in tenancy. Efforts to gear the rate of mechanization of agriculture to the capacity of local industrialization to employ those released by agriculture also appear indicated.
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The authors are respectively Economist of the Human Resources Research Center, University of Southern California, and Professor of Economics, University of Maryland. They are indebted to the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science and to the Agency for International Development for support of this research.
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Levine, D.S., Adelman, I. Economic development in Appalachia. Ann Reg Sci 7, 13–26 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01285526
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01285526