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Neal:But I think you miss my point a little GDP and SAP in praitcce strongly overlap because states work hard to make all activity legible and therefore manageable but having working in Africa for a long time, the fact is that there is a lot of activity going on outside the purview of the state it can't be seen, measured or taxed (i.e. subsistence agriculture). GDP sometimes tries to capture this through broad estimates, but that is why GDP figures are so deeply unreliable in sub-Saharan Africa. The point here is that a lot of activity is not yet SAP, but if states have their way they will try to compel people to work on the production of SAP whether or not that is in the best interest of those who are compelled. For example, to get a greater SAP, it is in the interest of the state to push people into cash cropping, or at least into industrial agricultural production. This overlooks the fact that subsistence production, which is really non-SAP, is a key source of safety and certainty in most agricultural producer's livelihoods. Im this case, the interest of the state runs directly contrary to the interests of the small producers, at least until such time that the negative impacts of lost subsistence production begin to negatively impact the agricultural component of SAP.I do agree, though, that this GDP/SAP distinction can be applied anywhere there is a state
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Louis
MESSAGE TIMESTAMP
19 december 2014, 08:07:29
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