Agrarian Structure Of Bangladesh
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A01=F. Tomasson Jannuzi
A01=James T Peach
Author_F. Tomasson Jannuzi
Author_James T Peach
Category=GTM
Category=JBSL
Category=JP
Category=NHTB
economic inequality countryside
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fieldwork methodology social sciences
institutional barriers to rural progress
legislative land reform
peasant class structure
rural power dynamics
socioeconomic stratification
Product details
- ISBN 9780367305475
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 144 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The relationship between the agrarian structure of Bangladesh and its problems of rural development is established in this study based on four years (1975-79) of field research. The authors suggest that the concentration of land in the hands of a rural elite is the principal impediment to the participation of weaker sections of the peasantry in economic progress. Tracing the failure of local attempts to change Bangladesh's agrarian structure by legislative means, they outline a modified program for rural development that is linked to agrarian reform. Agrarian reform, Drs. Jannuzi and Peach argue, is the prerequisite for a rural development strategy that provides for both economic growth and improved income distribution; thus, approaches to rural development in Bangladesh that place reliance on new agricultural technology without first changing the institutions that determine peoples' relationships to the land are not viable. The authors' policy recommendations, grounded in new data on the relative proportions of owners of land, sharecroppers, and the landless, are supplemented by a theoretical analysis of the institution of sharecropping and detailed field work methodology.
"F. Tomasson Jannuzi is director of the Center for Asian Studies and a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin.
James T. Peach is also associated with the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas."
