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Show 45 tenant households By the eve significant were evicted in the Arsi of the 1974 sense Revolution, from what it was intervene in the economy. Per region between the Ethiopian Ethiopia, though even economy two decades before the capita income growth was feudal nature of the economy remained intact. it grew by a (Bekele 1995) government started a mere .. different in any was no 2 per cent Agriculture remained 2.2 mere 1967 and 1974 actively to (Table 1). The the backbone of percent during the period of intense government intervention. Given high population growth, per capita agricultural output actually declined. Thus, overwhelmingly make in significant growth remained a was development remained subsistence peasant impact beyond Industrialization did not take This of the spite place, not however their even enough to of commercial The farming. though impact small part of the whole economy it grew of by a respectable 4 to 6 per cent. the structure of the economy. throughout the compounded the political The role of the economic crisis was and social highlighted by period. problems Eshetu and 1967/68 1971172 o m P re- 1974 EthllOPIa 1971172 1972173 4.0 4.5 2.5 1.4 1.7 2.2 0.2 -0.9 2.2 3.5 0.7 -0.6 5.6 4.4 3.1 -0.7 10.5 3.6 6.8 -1.1 - 1973174 (Average) GDP Per Capita Agriculture Industry Manufacturing Adapted from Chole and Manyazewal (1992). Industry It is therefore change the of the country. Manayzewal they argued: T a hI e 1 : G row th I n dilea t ors did not experimentation. reasonable to argue that the failure of the Haile Selassie government to structure of the economy the sector "package programs" location original agriculture, when |
