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This study examines the impact of capital on the small peasant economy of Sri Lanka which has been dominated by paddy cultivation, the consequent processes of agrarian change in the peasant society and the impact of these changes on the lives of the peasantry. The persistence of peasant agriculture throughout the developing world has posed a challenge to classical theories of the development of capitalism in agriculture which considered peasant production or Simple Commodity Production as a transitional phenomenon doomed to disappear. Recent interpretations of theories on Simple Commodity Production however, argue that peasant forms of production can and likely will survive within capitalist social formations, and therefore the analysis of the dynamics of agrarian change has to focus on historically specific situations. Pursuing the latter view, this study identifies the role of the State, class structure, and the role of agro-ecological imperatives as key factors influencing agrarian change in Sri Lanka. While existing agrarian relations in the peasant sector have not become a barrier to the growth of productive forces in the peasant economy, this growth has not necessarily led to the disintegration of the peasantry, despite a certain amount of differentiation among them. While the dynamism manifested in the emergence of a small stratum of rich peasants and rural entrepreneurs may indicate the possibility of capitalist development in the peasant sector in some areas of the country, the overall situation within the peasant economy indicates the possibility of paddy agriculture reaching its advanced stages within the form of peasant production itself. In the event of such a possibility, it is the problem of underemployed labour in the peasant sector which will become the agrarian question of Sri Lanka. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

Ceylon has experienced a long period of export growth. Although export expansion led to a rise in G.N.P., there is not much indication that export expansion alone was sufficient to cause a sustained and general increase of per capita incomes. Per capita G.N.P. is estimated to have risen at the rate of 1.1 per cent per annum between 1926 and 1945. Trade also had only a limited effect in diversifying Ceylon's economic structure. Growth appeared to be confined to exports and immediately ancillary services. The late 1940's ushered in a new era with the grant of Independence. Growth in per capita G.N.P. accelerated from 1947 to 4.0 per cent per annum and was accompanied by an expansion of domestic agriculture and industry despite the fact that Ceylon also experienced a population boom since 1947. Why did exports fail to operate as a leading sector in the particular case of Ceylon? The problem is approached by an examination of the following relevant factors: The historical background and the opening up of the economy to trade comprising an investigation of the impact of coffee plantations; some aspects of the production functions of export industries relevant to determining the magnitude of foreign exchange earnings, share of locally retained income; the scope for backward, forward and final demand linkages; the causes for inadequate response as well as the factors responsible for the accleration in growth in later years. A theory which states that the nature of the production functions of export industries has a direct bearing on the extent to which the stimulus from exports leads to the development of related sectors would be relevant to almost any underdeveloped export economy in which foreign trade plays a significant role. Other factors, however, such as the shortage of capital combined with the lack of credit facilities, the free availability of imports and inadequate infant industry protection, a land-based value system and the negative role of the government vis-a-vis domestic agriculture and industry seem to have been major impediments to diversification around the export base. Acceleration in economic growth and a greater degree of diversification in the economic structure of Ceylon in the post-Independence period appear to be connected with government policy, initiative and assistance. / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate

The main objective of this study is to determine whether 1971 fertility differentials in Sri Lanka's dry zone can be explained in terms of agricultural development. It is hypothesized that agricultural development might be associated with low fertility due to the effects of agricultural development on intermediate variables found to be closely related to fertility in other studies. Yotopoulos work on the relation between economic development and fertility provides a useful theoretical frame. The methodology employed is path analysis. Findings indicate that agricultural development is not related to fertility differentials in Sri Lanka's dry zone. Differentials in fertility are explained primarily in terms of cultural factors, female education, female age at marriage, and family planning. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

This study analyzed the harvesting behavior of perennial cash-crop growers in Sri Lanka. These growers face two alternatives with respect to harvesting; premature and mature harvesting. The objectives of the study were: to determine the reasons for premature harvesting, to explain this behavior with socio-economic factors as explanatory variables, and to describe the behavior with decision theory. The first objective was achieved by surveying a sample of 240 farmers. Fear of theft and immediate money needs were the reasons why most farmers harvested their crop at a premature stage. A logit probability model was used to explain this behavior. Education of the farmer, ratio of lowland to total land operated by the farmer, and the total family income were significantly related to harvesting behavior. Expected utility theory, expected profit maximization, and a lexicographic safety-first model were used to predict farmer behavior. The expected utility approach used the exponential utility function, the quadratic utility function, and the cubic utility function. The lexicographic safety-first model minimized the probability of regret as the first objective and maximized the expected income as the second objective, in that order. The expected utility model with the exponential utility function made the largest number of correct predictions followed by the expected profit maximizing model. The conclusions of this study, while providing more evidence of the poor predictive ability of the expected profit maximizing model, further supports the usefulness of expected utility theory in describing and predicting farmer behavior. A majority of the studies on farmer behavior have concentrated on resource allocation. This study has demonstrated that even harvesting behavior can be explained by expected utility theory. There was no consistency in the way the utility functions ranked the two harvesting alternatives; for certain farmers the ranking of one function reversed the ranking of other functions. This study has, thus, demonstrated the influence of utility functional forms on the ranking of prospects. The results were sensitive to changes in the discount rate and the results of the safety-first model were sensitive to changes in the expected income. / Ph. D.