Rural Development in Bangladesh and Pakistan / ed. by Robert D. Stevens, Peter Bertocci, Hamza Alavi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmad, Muneer, Contributor.

Alavi, Hamza, Contributor.

Alavi, Hamza, Editor.

Azharul Haq, Khondaker, Contributor.

Bertocci, Peter J., Contributor.

Bertocci, Peter, Editor.

Calkins, Philip B., Contributor.

Elkinton, Charles M., Contributor.

Esmay, Merle L., Contributor.

Faidley, LeVern, Contributor.

Gotsch, Carl H., Contributor.

Hasan, Parvez, Contributor.

Javed Burki, Shahid, Contributor.

Raulet, Harry M., Contributor.

Rochin, Refugio I., Contributor.

Stevens, Robert D., Contributor.

Stevens, Robert D., Editor.

Tepper, Elliot, Contributor.

Series:

East-West Center Books

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH

1 Rural Development in Bangladesh: An Introduction

2 Stability and Change in Landholding and Revenue Systems in Bengal

3 The Administration of Rural Reform: Structural Constraints and Political Dilemmas

4 East Pakistan's Agricultural Planning and Development, 1955-1969: Its Legacy for Bangladesh

5 Comilla Rural Development Programs to 1971

6 Introduction and Use of Improved Rice Varieties: Who Benefits?

7 Experience with Low-Cost Tubewell Irrigation

8 Social Organization and Agricultural Development in Bangladesh

PART II RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN

9 Themes in Economic Growth and Social Change in Rural Pakistan: An Introduction

10 The Historical Context of Pakistan's Rural Economy

11 Rural Self-Government in Pakistan: An Experiment in Political Development through Bureaucracy

12 Agricultural Growth and Planning in the 1960s

13 Relationships between Technology, Prices, and Income Distribution in Pakistan's Agriculture: Some Observations on the Green Revolution

14 The Adoption and Effects of High-Yielding Wheats on Unirrigated Subsistence Holdings in Pakistan

15 The Development of Pakistan's Agriculture: An Interdisciplinary Explanation

16 The Rural Elite and Agricultural Development in Pakistan

17 The Green Revolution and Future Developments of Pakistan's Agriculture

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

ISBN:

0-8248-8618-6

OCLC:

1253313556