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John Williams Mellor

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According to Wikipedia, John Williams Mellor is a French-born American economist, known for his work in the field of economic and agricultural development in third world countries. In 1985, he was awarded the Wihuri International Prize, for his “constructive work that has remarkably promoted and developed the security of nutrient supply for mankind.” A Fulbright Scholar, he spent most of his academic career at his alma mater, Cornell University. In the early 1970s, he became an economist for USAID, eventually becoming their chief economist in 1976. After leaving USAID, he became the second director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1977, where he remained until 1990. He has authored numerous articles, and several books, chiefly regarding economic and agricultural development in third world countries. Currently he runs John Mellor Associates as well as being a professor emeritus at Cornell.

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The role of agriculture in economic development (1961) (687)
The New Economics Of Growth (1976) (277)
The Economics of Agricultural Development (1967) (222)
Agriculture on the Road to industrialization (2004) (216)
World food equation: interrelations among development, employment, and food consumption (1984) (189)
Food Price Policy and Income Distribution in Low-Income Countries (1978) (140)
Growth Linkages of the New Foodgrain Technologies (1972) (128)
Faster More Equitable Growth: The Relation Between Growth in Agriculture and Poverty Reduction (2000) (113)
Agricultural change and rural poverty (1985) (76)
Technological Change, Distributive Bias and Labor Transfer in a Two-Sector Economy (1981) (67)
Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa (1987) (67)
High rural population density Africa – What are the growth requirements and who participates? (2014) (67)
Institutional finance for agricultural development : an analytical survey of critical issues (1993) (66)
Agricultural Price Policy for Developing Countries (1988) (65)
The Impact of Growth in Small Commercial Farm Productivity on Rural Poverty Reduction (2017) (65)
A Structural View of Policy Issues in African Agricultural Development (1984) (62)
The Use and Productivity of Farm Family Labor in Early Stages of Agricultural Development (1963) (58)
Accelerated Growth in Agricultural Production and the Intersectoral Transfer of Resources (1973) (55)
Famine: Causes, Prevention, and Relief (1987) (49)
Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation: Promoting Growth with Poverty Reduction (2017) (47)
The intertwining of environmental problems and poverty. (1988) (43)
Why Agriculture Remains a Viable Means of Poverty Reduction in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Case of Ethiopia (2013) (38)
Global food balances and food security (1988) (38)
Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation (2017) (36)
Agriculture and the Economic Transformation of Ethiopia (2010) (32)
Developing rural India. Plan and practice. (1970) (31)
Irrigation, agriculture and poverty reduction: General relationships and specific needs (2002) (29)
The Functions of Agricultural Prices in Economic Development (1968) (27)
Foreign aid and agriculture-led development. (1998) (21)
The Contrasting Response of Rice to Nitrogen: India and the United States (1964) (21)
Search for the Theta+ Pentaquark in the gammad--> DeltanK+ reaction measured with the CLAS spectrometer. (2006) (21)
Food policy, food aid and structural adjustment programmes: The context of agricultural development (1988) (21)
Food Prospects for the Developing Countries (1983) (21)
The Average and Marginal Product of Farm Labor in Underdeveloped Economies (1956) (20)
Employment Multipliers from Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction (2001) (20)
Agricultural Policy Strategy, Instruments and Implementation: A Review and the Road Ahead (2011) (19)
Agricultural growth and industrial development in Punjab. (1995) (18)
Third World Development: Food, Employment, and Growth Interactions (1982) (17)
Institutional finance for agricultural development (1993) (17)
Jobs, Poverty and the “Green Revolution” (1972) (15)
Agricultural and industrial development in Taiwan. (1995) (15)
The new political economy of food and agricultural development. (1986) (13)
The food situation in developing countries: Two decades in review (1984) (13)
Why Does Agricultural Growth Dominate Poverty Reduction in Low- and Middle-income Countries? (2006) (13)
Land-abundant agricultural growth and some of its consequences: the case of Thailand. (1995) (12)
Food Aid and Nutrition (1980) (12)
A Labor Supply Theory of Economic Development (1971) (12)
The Nature of Agriculture's Contributions to Economic Development (1960) (12)
Dramatic poverty reduction in the Third World: prospects and needed action. (1990) (11)
Closing the Last Chapter on U .S. Foreign Aid: What To Do About Africa (1998) (11)
Determinants and Development Implications of Foodgrains Prices in India, 1949–1964 (1968) (10)
Agricultural Growth, its Determinants, and Their Relationship to World Development: an Overview (1988) (10)
Feeding the underdeveloped world (1984) (10)
India: A Rising Middle Power (1979) (10)
New Seed Varieties and the Small Farm (1972) (10)
Pricing Efficiency in the Indian Wheat Market. (1968) (10)
Food Demand in Developing Countries and the Transition of World Agriculture (1988) (9)
Tinbergen, Jan, Shaping the World Economy: Suggestions for an International Economic Policy, New York, The Twentieth Century Fund, 1962, pp. xviii, 330. (Cloth, $4.00; Paper, $2.25) (1964) (9)
Revolution and Land Reform in Ethiopia: Peasant Associations, Local Government and Rural Development (1979) (9)
Food Aid for Food Security and Economic Development (1987) (9)
Agricultural price policy and income distribution in low income nations (1975) (9)
Rural Development Issues Following Ethiopian Land Reform (1976) (9)
Agriculture and Rural Areas Approaching the Twenty-first Century: Challenges for Agricultural Economics (1985) (8)
International Workshop on “ Livestock and Livelihoods : Challenges and Opportunities for Asia in the Emerging Market Environment ” 10-12 November 2003 Key Note Address Agricultural growth and poverty reduction – the rapidly increasing role of smallholder livestock (2003) (8)
The Agriculture of India (1976) (7)
The New Global Context for Agricultural Research - Implications for Policy (1986) (7)
Ending hunger: an implementable program for self-reliant growth (1990) (7)
Agricultural Price Policy in the Context of Economic Development (1969) (7)
PRODUCTION ECONOMICS AND THE MODERNIZATION OF TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURES (1969) (7)
The contribution of agriculture to growth: Colombia. (1995) (6)
The Political Economy of Employment Oriented Development (1971) (6)
The company store: James Bryson McLachlan and the Cape Breton coal miners, 1900-1925 (1983) (6)
Agricultural Development and Food Security (2010) (6)
History of the Water Problem (6)
Models of Economic Growth and Land-Augmenting Technological Change in Foodgrain Production (1974) (6)
Agricultural Development in the Third World: The Food, Poverty, Aid, Trade Nexus (1989) (6)
Rural Employment Linkages through Agricultural Growth: Concepts, Issues, and Questions (1989) (6)
CXXIX.—The preparation of pure chlorine and its behaviour towards hydrogen (5)
Accelerating Agricultural Growth—Is Irrigation Institutional Reform Necessary? (1996) (5)
Some Issues in Institutional Finance for Agricultural Development: A Cross-National Review of Evidence (1995) (5)
XIX.—On the union of hydrogen and chlorine. Parts I to III (5)
Agricultural Development Opportunities for the 1990s: The Role of Research (1988) (5)
Agricultural Growth - Structures and Patterns (1982) (5)
Increasing Agricultural Production in Early Stages of Economic Developement relationships, Problems, and Prospects (1962) (5)
Estimates of change and causes of change in foodgrains production India, 1949-50 to 1960-61 (1964) (5)
Research and Extension (2017) (4)
A Framework for Transitioning To Rural Economic Growth in Angola (2003) (4)
Food Aid And Development In The Madia Countries (1991) (4)
Emphasizing agriculture in economic development - is it a risky business? (1990) (4)
Agricultural links to nonagricultural growth: urbanization, employment, poverty. (1991) (4)
Food production needs in a consumption perspective. (1989) (4)
The Subsistence Farmer in Traditional Economies (2017) (4)
On the plasticity of clays (4)
Agricultural growth in Argentina. (1995) (4)
Prediction and prevention of famine. (1986) (4)
The Economic Transformation (2017) (3)
CXXX.—The union of hydrogen and chlorine. V. The action of light on chlorine gas (3)
Elements of a food marketing policy for low income countries. (1970) (3)
Expanding the Green Revolution. (1989) (3)
Production Problems and Issues in Agricultural Development (1966) (3)
Lectures on agricultural growth and employment: an equitable growth strategy and its knowledge needs (1988) (3)
Measuring the Impact of Agricultural Growth on Economic Transformation (2017) (3)
Agricultural Price Policy for Growth (The Distinguishedl Lecture) (1994) (3)
Rural Education and Health (2017) (3)
The Process of Agricultural Development in Low-Income Countries (1962) (3)
Descriptions of three new birds. (3)
Agricultural Development and Food Security(The Allama Iqbal Memorial Lecture) (2008) (2)
Australasian Ornithologists' Union (2016) (2)
Destruction of birds (2)
The Agricultural Marketing System and Price Stabilization Policies (1970) (2)
Flinders Island camp-out. (2)
CXXXI.—The union of hydrogen and chlorine. VI. The period of induction (2)
Investigation of Distance Vector Routing for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (2003) (2)
Practical Corporate Governance: For Smaller Quoted Companies and Private Companies (2008) (2)
The Farm, the Farmer, and Labor Supply (2017) (2)
Alternative Estimates of the Trend in Indian Foodgrains Production during the First Two Plans (1965) (2)
Description of a new grasswren (2)
Dualistic economic development (1972) (2)
Development in Costa Rica: the key role of agriculture. (1995) (1)
The young of Climacteris leucophaea. (1)
Description of a new crow-shrike (1)
Economía del desarrollo agrícola (1971) (1)
Wheat Economy of India: A Study Of The Growth, Development and International Trade Prospects (2000) (1)
Simon Dresner.The Principles of Sustainability. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publications, 2002. Pp. 200. (2004) (1)
British Post-War Policy towards Farm Mechanization (1954) (1)
Dealing with the Uncertainty of Growing Food Imbalances: International Structures and National Policies (1985) (1)
Sample Bias from the Elimination of Poultrymen Who Don't Keep Financial Records (1952) (1)
Atomic Energy Applications with Reference to Underdeveloped Countries, B. C. Netschert and S. H. Schurr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1957. Pp. xiv, 129. $2.00 (1957) (1)
Structural and Rural Development in the Third World. Guy BergerThe State of World Rural Poverty: An Inquiry into Its Causes and Consequences. Idriss Jazairy , Mohiuddin Alamgir , Theresa Panuccio (1995) (1)
Capital Formation and the Exchange Rate (2017) (1)
Dynamic Externalities and Structural Change in Kenya (1995) (1)
Description of a new Grass-Wren (1)
The Effect of Growth in Demand for Milk on the Demand for Concentrate Feeds, India, 1951-76 (1964) (1)
Upon the Murchison (1)
Prices and Price Policy (2017) (1)
The changing roles of multilateral and bilateral foreign assistance (2016) (1)
Agricultural prices in economic development-their role, function and operation. (1970) (0)
Young People at the Vestry Hall (2011) (0)
Major Determinants of the Productivity of Agricultural Labour (1967) (0)
Planning and the poor: B.S. Minhas, (S. Chand, New Delhi, 1974) Pp. xvii + 141, Rs 25.00 (1976) (0)
Birds of Port Germein, South Australia. (0)
Birds of the Blackalls (0)
Land and Land Tenure (2017) (0)
The reciprocal determination of cyanides and cyanates (0)
India and the United States (2019) (0)
Kazushi Ohkawa, Bruce F. Johnston and Hiromitsu Kaneda, ed., Agriculture and Economic Development: Symposium on Japan's Experience (1970) (0)
Malleefowl for a sanctuary (0)
Food and Development: The Critical Nexus between Developing and Developed Countries (1988) (0)
Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union: Eleventh (Sydney) Session (0)
Government and the Institutions of Modernization (2017) (0)
Agriculture's Role Is Crucial (1962) (0)
In the Stocks (2011) (0)
The Messenger stall (2011) (0)
XL.—The union of hydrogen and chlorine. Part IV. The Draper effect (0)
Interview with Dr. John W. Mellor (2013) (0)
Cities, Consumption, and Marketing Dynamics (2017) (0)
Priscila and client (2011) (0)
Book Review:Studies in Indian Agriculture--The Art of the Possible Gilbert Etienne, Megan Mothersole (1969) (0)
Book Review:The "Green Revolution" and Economic Development Mohammad Alauddin, Clement Tisdell (1994) (0)
Chemical danger (2004) (0)
The Disinfestation of Slum Houses and Furniture. (1936) (0)
Professor C.F. Thiele Father of Canadian band music (1986) (0)
North East Learner (2015) (0)
A star is torn A star is torn (2003) (0)
A Further Reply (1972) (0)
Agriculture policies for accelerating progress. (1967) (0)
Trade and Development – Proceedings of the Winter 1986 Meeting of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (2009) (0)
Response: famine: some additional aspects. (1987) (0)
Real test is commitment to development (1979) (0)
The Role of Foreign Aid (2017) (0)
Distinguished lecture : some issues in institutional finance for agricultural development : international evidence and implications for Pakistan (1995) (0)
Grimesthorpe Allotments Plant sale (2014) (0)
High Sheriff's Award for Victor Mujakachi (2013) (0)
Agriculture and Ethiopia’s Economic Transformation (2011) (0)
Grain Feeding Related to Milk-Feed Ratios (1959) (0)
High Sheriff's Awards (2013) (0)
Accelerated Technological Change in Agriculture and its Relation to Environment (1970) (0)
Note on Bunsen's Ice Calorimeter (0)
Sustainable agricultural development: Issues, problems, and solutions (2016) (0)
Alleviating hunger while building markets. (1990) (0)
Determinants and Development Implications of Food Grain Prices in India: Reply (1969) (0)
Retirement of Martin Smith (2016) (0)
The Curry Canteen (2009) (0)
Agricultural growth in Asia and Africa: the population, urbanization, poverty, environmental interactions. (1992) (0)
Avoiding a slip-up when choosing safety flooring. (2015) (0)
Firshill Craft Group summer Fair (2011) (0)
Poverty and development: prospects and priorities for the 1990s. (1990) (0)
Core requirements for rapid agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2019) (0)
The Hungry Future.@@@Developing Rural India: Plan and Practice. (1970) (0)
Pauperising Agriculture: Studies in Agrarian Change and Demographic Structure. H. KrishnajiThe New Economics of India's Green Revolution: Income and Employment Diffusion in Uttar Pradesh. Rita Sharma , Thomas T. Poleman (1996) (0)
Finance for the Small Commercial Farmer (2017) (0)
Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition (1995) (0)
Burngreave Vestry Hall (2011) (0)
Distinguished lecture : accelerating agricultural growth : is institutional reform in irrigation necessary? (1996) (0)
HANENBERGER'S DOING JUST FINE DOWN UNDER (2001) (0)
Meier, Gerald M., and James E. Rauch. Leading Issues in Economic Development, 7th edn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 578 + xix pp., price unknown (2002) (0)
Fire at Parkwood Springs (2010) (0)
Young People At Burngreave Vestry Hall (2011) (0)
Book Review:Agricultural Trends in India, 1891-1947: Output, Availability, and Productivity George Blyn (1968) (0)
The Indian Economy: Objectives, Performance and Prospects (2019) (0)
Farm business analyses of 30 farms Midhaqur, Agra District, U.P. 1959-60. (1960) (0)
Book Review:The Challenge to the South: The Report of the South Commission The South Commission (1993) (0)
Trust of e-Banking in Bahrain, are Biometrics the Answer? The role of Wasta and the macro- micro- and meso-system influences in the ecological model (2013) (0)
Agricultural Taxation in Gujarat.@@@Agricultural Development and Population Growth.@@@Agricultural Development in India's Districts. (1972) (0)
The basis for agricultural price policy. (1970) (0)
James C. Scott.Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed..New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xlv+445. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). (2002) (0)
Practical Corporate Governance: For Smaller Quoted Companies (2013) (0)
PETSE 2011 Organizing Committee (2011) (0)
Recent findings about agriculture and the economic transformation (2018) (0)
Statement to the CGIAR from John Mellor, 9 November 1978 (1978) (0)
Economic Development of Agriculture: Discussion (1971) (0)
Third World development and the demand for agricultural exports - the role of the United States (1978) (0)
"Anything Goes" on stage at the Festival (2011) (0)
Fnployment, and Growth Interactions (2010) (0)
The Landed and the Landless. (1978) (0)
REVIEWIrene Tinker.Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x+246. $35.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2000) (0)
Village-level research. (1960) (0)
Developing Science and Technology Systems-- Experience and Lessons from Agriculture (1973) (0)

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