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suggests long-term domestic strategies and policies that would
enable poor farmers in developing countries to benefit from
international trade, thereby contributing to rural poverty
reduction and achievement of international development targets.
4. Sustainable Development - Priorities and
Responsibilities
4.0 The existence (or absence) of favourable natural resources
can facilitate (or retard) the process of economic development.
Professor W.A.Lewis writes: "Natural resources determine the
course of development and constitute the challenge which may
not be accepted by the human mind". Developing countries,
embarking on programmes of economic development, "usually have
to begin with and concentrate on the development of locally
available natural resources as an initial condition, for lifting local
levels of living and purchasing power, for obtaining foreign
exchange with which to purchase capital equipment, and for
setting in motion the development process" (Fisher, 1964) 28 . The
search for socially desirable, technologically appropriate,
economically viable, and ecologically sound pattern of resource
28 Fisher,J.J (1964)::"The Role of Natural Resources in Economic Development: Principles and Pattern" in (Eds)
H.F.Williamsons and J.A.Buttrick, 1964, pp 32
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