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Lesure, Sheffield Emi.

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Agricultural Development and the State: Oil Palm in Malaysia and Nigeria.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Agricultural Development and the State: Oil Palm in Malaysia and Nigeria./
Author:	Lesure, Sheffield Emi.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	566 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-07A(E).
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10025634
ISBN:	9781339521008

Agricultural Development and the State: Oil Palm in Malaysia and Nigeria.
Lesure, Sheffield Emi.

Agricultural Development and the State: Oil Palm in Malaysia and Nigeria. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 566 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation examines whether states play a crucial role in facilitating economic development and why state intervention promotes development in some countries more than in others. It applies these questions to the agricultural sector by focusing on the cases of smallholder production of oil palm in Malaysia and Nigeria. In the former, the state, through the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA), was effective at expanding the nascent oil palm subsector by using efficient, capital-intensive production and processing and incorporating poor peasants for the first time into the production system. In Nigeria, in contrast, the state was unable to significantly increase output or alter the production methods of oil palm peasants. Eventually, Malaysia surpassed Nigeria by becoming the world's largest producer and exporter of palm oil. The conventional view of these two countries is that the Malaysian state, unlike the Nigerian state, has a relatively rational and skilled bureaucracy that allows it to formulate better policies---in other words, the state has high intrinsic capacity.

ISBN: 9781339521008Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

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520 $a This dissertation examines whether states play a crucial role in facilitating economic development and why state intervention promotes development in some countries more than in others. It applies these questions to the agricultural sector by focusing on the cases of smallholder production of oil palm in Malaysia and Nigeria. In the former, the state, through the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA), was effective at expanding the nascent oil palm subsector by using efficient, capital-intensive production and processing and incorporating poor peasants for the first time into the production system. In Nigeria, in contrast, the state was unable to significantly increase output or alter the production methods of oil palm peasants. Eventually, Malaysia surpassed Nigeria by becoming the world's largest producer and exporter of palm oil. The conventional view of these two countries is that the Malaysian state, unlike the Nigerian state, has a relatively rational and skilled bureaucracy that allows it to formulate better policies---in other words, the state has high intrinsic capacity.
520 $a While this intrinsic capacity contributed to the divergence in the effectiveness of oil palm promotional policies, this study argues that the different class structures and extent of capitalist development also played a major role by affecting the extrinsic capacity of the state---its ability to secure the cooperation of outside social groups needed to implement state policies. The greater development of capitalism in Malaysia resulted in differentiation of the peasantry, creating new classes of peasants willing to participate in the state's development programs and helping the state build its extrinsic capacity. In Nigeria, capitalism remained underdeveloped and the peasantry relatively undifferentiated, which largely deterred peasants from cooperating with the government's efforts to promote new production systems and technology to improve productivity. In both types of contexts, peasants are rational, but differing class structures and degrees of capitalism mediate peasants' interests. Where the interests of the state and peasants align, the state can build up its extrinsic capacity and successfully implement agricultural development policies.
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