Edgar Graham, Ingrid Floering

The Modern Plantation in the Third World

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1984, this was the first study to define and rationalise the character and functions of the plantation in the contemporary world. The author, Edgar Graham, was uniquely placed to do this having had long experience of Unilever's plantations in West Africa, Zaire, Malaysia and the Pacific.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781032693132
• ISBN-10: 1032693134
• Artikelnr.: 69876788

Autorenporträt

Edgar Graham joined the United Africa Company in 1947 and it was his experience in West Africa in the following decade which gave him both the insight and interest in development issues. In 1974 he became Director of the Joint Boards of Unilever and was a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford between 1964 and 1972.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Plantation and Its Characteristics: Analysis and Economic
Theory 1. The Plantation is a Production System 2. Development Economics
and the Evolution of Plantations 3. Foreign Ownership and Foreign
Management: Costs and Benefits 4. The Role of Management 5. The Plantation
and the Host Economy: Studies in Linkages and Comparative Advantage Part 2:
Applying the Plantation Principle 6. Differing Institutions and Alternative
Strategies 7. Two Variants of the Modern Plantation: FELDA and Mumias 8.
Cane Sugar: Factors Affecting the Market for the Production Processes of
this Commodity 9. Cane Sugar: Three Case Studies I 10. General Conclusions
and Summary.