Landless Peasants and Rural Poverty in Indonesia and the Philippines


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Monograph on relationship between landlessness and rural area poverty in Indonesia and the Philippines - examines rural development in java, causes and effects of poverty such as population growth, changes in land tenure and agricultural income, in institutional framework, labour demand under the green revolution, differential consequences of agrarian reform, nonfarm employment and government policies. Bibliography, references and statistical tables.







Rural Development


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The Green Revolution, Employment, and Economic Change in Rural Java


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This paper reviews the literature on economic change in rice-growing areas in Java in the 1970s and focuses on the extent to which the Green Revolution and commercialization of agriculture contributed to labour displacement and inequalities in wealth and income.




Rural Poverty and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines


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FAO pub. Consultant report on rural area poverty alleviation, particularly through agrarian reform, in the Philippines - looks at trends in economic growth and income distribution; examines dynamics of poverty incl. Underemployment, low wage rates, external linkages, etc.; examines trends in development policies and rural development strategies. Bibliography and statistical tables.




The Philippines


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This book analyzes the Philippine economy from the 1960s to the 1980s. During this period, the benefits of economic growth conspicuously failed to "trickle down". Despite rising per capita income, broad sectors of the Filipino population experienced deepening poverty. Professor Boyce traces this outcome to the country's economic and political structure and focuses on three elements of the government's development strategy: the "green revolution" in rice agriculture, the primacy accorded to export agriculture and forestry, and massive external borrowing. James Boyce is the author of "Agrarian Impasse in Bengal" and co-author of "A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village".




Landless Workers and Rice Farmers


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Perspectives from the household level; Agrarian reform in two villages; Implications for the Philippine agrarian reform program.