INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY IN LDC's by
H. Klein and T. Roe*
I. INTRODUCTION
Major efforts have been undertaken to both develop and apply large scale agricultural sector analysis models (ASA) in a number of LDCts. Well over a dozen LDC's have ASA models either in advanced or final stages of development including Brazil, Columbia, Egypt, India, Ivory Coast, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand and Tunisia to name some of these (13). All of these efforts have been funded for development and directed by foreign donors with heavy participation by FAO and the U.S. Agency for International Development. These ASA models have been developed under a wide variety of circumstances; some-have been
devised almost wholely by foreign technicians while others have been joint efforts between foreign technical advisers and host country nationals.
Most of the literature in this area has focused on the theoretical and analytical problems that have to be confronted in model development. However, there is very little data concerning the institutionalization of ASA modelling techniques within governmental decision making and planning processes (3, p. 35). What little data there is does not look encouraging.
A 1972 USAID study evaluated agricultural sector studies to 'that date and concluded that the utilization rates of these ASA efforts was quite low and, with few exceptions, the resources expended in these efforts were
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