Re-thinking Economic Development: The Green Revolution, Agrarian Structure and Transformation in BangladeshThis study investigates the impact of agrarian development programs on rural class structure in Bangladesh, and it highlights how the local administration of infrastructure affected the social stratification of villages. Re-thinking Economic Development shows how the so-called Green Revolution was conducive to the formation of the groundwater market and the emergence of the 'waterlords.' The book demonstrates the ways in which the failure of formal finance facilities contributed to the credit flow from the wealthy to the poor, with the transformation of the potato-marketing system and the structure of rural finance. |
Contents
Economic Development and Rural Transformation in Bangladesh | 27 |
The Formation of the Groundwater Market and Rural Income | 55 |
The Transformation of the Groundwater Market during the 1990s | 65 |
Irrigation and Agricultural Development in West Bengal India | 93 |
1 | 113 |
61 | 124 |
The Fallacy and Reality of Microcredit | 155 |
Transformation of the Potatomarketing System and Finance | 167 |
INFRASTRUCTURE GOVERNMENT AND RURAL SOCIETY | 193 |
Notes | 199 |
References | 278 |
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