State and agriculture in Iraq : modern development, stagnation and the impact of oil
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State and agriculture in Iraq : modern development, stagnation and the impact of oil
（Exeter Arab and Islamic studies series）
Ithaca Press, c2000
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-369) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Prior to the oil booms of the 1950s and the 1970s, Iraq's agriculture experienced many decades of growth, thereby underpinning the development of the modern state and the class structure of the pre-1958 period. This book argues that, by the 1950s, the agricultural sector that had earlier been dynamic and export-oriented was already tending to stagnation before both the early oil boom and the radical land reform of 1958. The sector that had largely relied on renewable natural resources, indigenous technology and customary social organisation had given rise to highly iniquitous income and wealth distribution, and it became associated with an entrenched socio-political structure that resisted reform and failed to raise productivity. Mahdi's analysis of Iraq's pre-oil agriculture forms the background to the main part of this book that deals with the impact on agriculture and the country's economy of the large increases in oil revenues from the early 1950s until the eve of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-8. The book places the rentier state and the different ways in which oil revenues affect the agricultural sector at the centre of an analysis of economic structure and performance.
It offers a new interpretation of the stagnation and subsequent decline of agriculture, and rejects simple readings based on political and administrative failures of the agrarian reform in favour of a more nuanced analysis that also incorporates economic structure, organisation and policy.
目次
- Part I Background and Analytical Framework: The Agricultural Resources and Population of Iraq
- The Rentier State and the Iraqi Economy - An Analytical Framework. Part II Agriculture and the State before the 1950s Oil Boom: Agricultural Growth in the Late Ottoman Period
- The Growth of Large Landownership - The Setting for Oil Dependence
- Constraints on the Expansion of Irrigation. Part III The Rentier State and Agriculture: The Impact of Oil Revenues on Pre-Reform Agriculture
- Agrarian Reform, its Implementation and the Development of the New Agrarian System
- The Growth of the State's Economic Role and the Bias against Agriculture
- The Structure and Performance of the Agricultural Sector in the Post-Reform Period.
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