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Pressure Groups, Public Policy and Agricultural Development: A Study of Divergent Outcomes

Abstract

Ghana and Kenya constitute two of the most prominent cases of the agricultural development in colonial Africa. In the one case, producer interests became paramount in the colonial period; in the other, the interests of producers were sacrificed to those of other sectors. This paper examines the divergent patterns of growth of commercial agriculture in Ghana and Kenya and tries to account for the contrasting outcomes of the process of agrarian development.

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I wish to thank John Ferejohn, David Grether, Bruce Johnston, Richard Sklar, Michael Lofchie, David Brokensha and Bernard Riley, and Thayer Scudder for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The errors which remain are my responsibility alone. Research for this paper was supported by the National Science Foundation grant number NSF 4 SOC77-08573. Published as Bates, Robert H. "Pressure groups, public policy, and agricultural development: a study of divergent outcomes." Pressure groups, public policy, and agricultural development: a study of divergent outcomes. (1980): 170-217.

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