Dynamique des structures agricoles et développement économique : l'exemple du Nord malgache
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Abstract EN:
Beyond the well accepted influence of natural environment upon agricultural development which,in turn, appears to play an important role in the economic development process, the writer attempts to point out the decisive role of the various form of production organisation within the rural environment. Being aware of the importance of that role, local authorities have always claimed the right that would allow them to shape the agricultural structures -whose basic features kept changing according to the ruling ideology- by means of various institutions. However, these measures proved to be ineffective on the whole, which has encouraged research work to forms upon the causes of the evolution of the behaviour of the basic components which keep the rural world alive and whose structural dynamic seems mainly deter- mined by the help of internal forces which could be channelled by means of some types of prompts. The motion that it causes can be seen through the meeting of the production function parameters which also spot the means of accumulation.
Abstract FR:
Au-dela de l'influence communement acceptee des conditions naturelles sur le developpement de l'agriculture, qui apparait luimeme preponderant dans le processus du developpement economique, l'auteur cherche a mettre en evidence le role decisif des modalites d'organisation de la production en milieu rural. Conscients de l'importance de ce role, les pouvoirs publics ont, de longue date,revendique la faculte de modeler les structures agricoles-dont les aspects fondamentaux devaient varier en fonction de l'ideologie regnante-par le truchement de diverses institutions. Ces mesures se sont toutefois revelees globalement inefficientes,ce qui a motive la recherche des causes de l'evolution dans le comportement des cellules qui animent le monde rural dont la dynamique structurelle apparait surtout determinee par le concours de forces endogenes susceptibles d'etre canalisees a l'aide de certains types d'incitations. Le mouvement qui en resulte est perceptible a travers le croisement des variables de la fonction de production qui positionnent en meme temps les leviers de l'accumulation.