Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12779
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Pages 15-29 in M.R. Dua and V.S. Gupta (eds.), Media and development: themes in communication and extension. Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, India. 176 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06823
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Pages 297-308 in Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert (eds.), The digital divide: the internet and social inequalities in international perspective. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. 324 pages.
Address reviews the theories and misconceptions which have provided the intellectual and idealogical underpinning of misguided agricultural and rural development policies. It then discusses major misguided policies which were supported by these intellectual traditions which have been shown to reduce agricultural growth and harm the welfare of the rural poor.