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Finance & Development, September 1982
Author:
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
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Series:
Finance & Development
Volume/Issue:
Volume 19: Issue 003
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Sep 1982
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616353506.022
ISBN:
9781616353506
ISSN:
0015-1947
Pages:
48
Keywords:
FD; F&D; rate; cooperative; SDR; lending; record SDR; rate policy; SDR scheme; fund activity; bank activity; lending program; Inflation; Gold; Agricultural sector; Currencies; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa; Global; Middle East; South Asia
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This paper highlights that there has been remarkable agricultural growth over the past three decades. Growth has been twice as rapid as in any previous period. Output has been fueled largely by developing countries’ increased capacity to produce more food and by continued growth in the developed countries. Despite this remarkable and sometimes unrecognized achievement, the “world food problem” continues to haunt mankind. Population growth, more rapid than agricultural growth in many poor countries, has sharply reduced the per capita benefits of increased food production.
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Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development
ISSN:
0015-1947
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
Volume 19: Issue 003