@article{oai:u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp:02006883,
 author = {山里, 将晃 and Yamasato, Shoko},
 issue = {8},
 journal = {琉球大学農家政工学部学術報告, The science bulletin of the Division of Agriculture, Home Economics & Engineering, University of the Ryukyus},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {The yearly average rate (in terms of per capita income) of economic growth attained by the Ryukyus in the years from 1955 to 1960 is 7.0%, which is significantly larger than the rates secured by such countries as the United States, England, and Germany, of which rates were 1.09%, 1.8%, and 5.3% respectively throughout 5 years from 1953 to1938. But, the rate of 7.0% of the Ryukyus is slightly less than that achieved by Japan, of which rate in the years from 1955 to1957was about 8.8 percent. It does not mean, however, that the average per capita income of the Ryukyus is approximately the same as that obtained by Japan. Statistics tells us that an each indivisual of the Ryukyus has received only around fifty percent of the dollars earned by an average person in Japan. Moreover, within the economy of the Ryukyus, income disparity between agricultural sector and the others has been creating one of the most significant social and economic problems of the country.  Income of a farmer has only been around thirty percent of that of an average worker. From this fact, one can expect a very high population pressure, underemploymellt,\nand in turn, a low labor productivity on agriculture. But, the writer has found out, following the analytical tool for economic growth produced By R.F. Harrod,GC=s, that the depressed low income at farm level has been one of the Largest factors which hve contributed to bring up the above melltioned high economic growth rate of the Ryukyus. That is; the high population pressure and underemployment situation at farm level has helped to make labor wage rates down in non-agricultural sector of the economy. This fact clearly implies that an employer group could be in a good position to accumulate savings which accelerated the capital formation needed for a speedy economic rehabilitation. The propensity to save of the Ryukyuan economy as a whole has been considerably high in comparison with these of the other countries. This high savings, then, have mostly invested to third industry where marginal efficiency of capital has been larger than that in any other two industries. Since a large income dispatity of any economy is not a favorable one, from the standpoint of economic welfare, the agricultural part of the Ryukyuan economy has to be developed so as to increase labor productivity . In oder to perform this particular objective, farmer must try to improve his own production structure by adjusting it to consumers' changes in their food consumption patterns.On this line of thinking, the writer has tried to calculate coefficient of income elasticity for each of main agricultural products of the Ryukyus. As the result, the coefficient of income elasticity for pork is around 2.0, while beef and rice are rather belonged to inferior goods. As an elasticity of price demand for pork seems to be also high, the demand for it will greatly be increased if costs of marketing and production can be reduced. In this situation, therefore, labor productivity in agriculture is expected to be greatly advanced if each farmer combines pork production effectively to his farming business., 紀要論文},
 pages = {181--193},
 title = {琉球経済の成長と農業},
 year = {1961}
}