The urban poor gained from the lower prices and greater supplies

The urban poor gained from the lower prices and greater supplies of food but the rural poor, especially the landless, have sometimes been disadvantaged. However, new agricultural technology should not be expected to stand proxy for social reform, and Lipton concludes that the technology per se (本身) was not to blame for the inequalities of impact; it met the criteria he would have specified for a technology to help the rural poor. As Frankel commented: 'It is precisely the social blindness of modern technology that is encouraging the most disadvantaged section of the agricultural community'.
【正确答案】：低廉的价格和充足的食品供应给城市贫民带来了好处，但对农村贫民，没有土地的贫民来说，并不常常有利。然而，新的农业技术并不能代替社会改革。李普顿说:新技术冲击力的非均衡性不能归咎于新技术本身,因为它已经达到了帮助穷人这一他认为任何一项新技术应该达到的标准。如法兰科尔所评论的:“正是由于现代技术对社会各个阶层一视同仁这一点在鼓励农业群体中处于最不利地位的那部分人。”