A reason that the Madagascar project to increase rice production was successful is that
A. Malagasy leaders were of the peasantry, or had strong ties to it, and therefore were prepared to follow the descent-group ethic of pooling resources for the good of the group as a whole.
B. the elites and the lower class were of different origins and therefore had no strong connections through kinship, descent, or marriage.
C. there is a clear fit between capitalist development schemes and corporate descent-group social organization.
D. it took into account that native forms of social organization inevitably break down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and alienation.
E. the educated members of Malagasy society are those who have struggled to fend for themselves and therefore brought an innovative kind of independence to the project.
A
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