Why are Bangladesh and the neighboring state of West Bengal the home of some of the world's poorest people when the region was once legendary for its agricultural abundance? This book explores the region's agricultural performance from 1949 to 1980 using demographic, technological, and institutional determinants. Drawing from the most up-to-date output and growth data available, the author points to drainage and flood control as the primary barrier to fulfillment of the region's great agricultural potential.

Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change (The ^ALibrary of Political Economy)

Business & Money

Boyce, James K.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Why are Bangladesh and the neighboring state of West Bengal home to some of the world's poorest people when the region was once legendary for its agricultural abundance? This book explores the region's agricultural performance from 1949 to 1980 using demographic, technological and institutional determinants. Drawing from the most up-to-date output and growth data available, Boyce points to problems in drainage and flood control as the primary barrier to fulfillment of the region's great potential.

This book analyzes the provision of aid to countries that have undergone negotiated settlements to civil wars, drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality, linking aid to steps to implement accords and consolidate the peace. The book explores how aid can encourage domestic investment in peace-related needs; the reconciliation of long-run peacebuilding objectives with short-run humanitarian imperatives; and the obstacles that donors' priorities and procedures pose to effective aid for peace. It concludes that investing in peace requires not only the reconstruction of war-torn societies but also the reconstruction of aid itself.

Investing in Peace (Adelphi series)

Routledge

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (Economic Choices before the Developing Countries)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The experience of the Philippines from the 1960s to the 1980s vividly illustrates the interplay between wealth and power in the course of economic development. During this period, the benefits of economic growth conspicuously failed to trickle down. Broad sectors of the Filipino people experienced deepening poverty. Professor Boyce traces this outcome to the country's economic and political structure, and to the development strategies pursued by the Philippine government and its international backers. Impressive gains in rice production via the 'green revolution' failed to translate into less hunger. Profits from the country's agricultural exports - sugar, coconut, banana, and pineapple - were concentrated in the hands of a few. Forestry exports triggered severe environmental degradation, the main victims of which were the poor. Massive external borrowing financed capital flight rather than productive investment, and left the country with a crushing foreign debt burden. The Philippine experience provides important insights into the political economy of development.

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Univ of Hawaii Pr

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".

University of Hawaii Press

A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village

Book by Hartmann, Betsy, Boyce, James K.

Hartmann, Betsy

Zed Books

A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two Bengali-seaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There, the readers meets some of the world's poorest people - peasants, sharecroppers and landless labourers - and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. The villager's poverty is not fortuitous, a result of divine dispensation or individual failings of charachter. Rather, it is the outcome of a long history of exploitation, culminating in a social order which today benefits a few at the expense of many.

History

Asia

A quiet violence today stalks the villages and shanty towns of the Third World, the violence of needless hunger. In this book, two Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There, the reader meets some of the world's poorest people - peasants, sharecroppers and landless labourers - and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. The villagers' poverty is not fortuitous, a result of divine dispensation or individual failings of character. Rather, it is the outcome of a long history of exploitation, culminating in a social order which today benefits a few at the expense of many.

Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (Third World Studies)

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Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars (Adelphi series)

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Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change (The ^ALibrary of Political Economy)

Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change (The ^ALibrary of Political Economy)

Investing in Peace (Adelphi series)

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (Economic Choices before the Developing Countries)

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era

The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era

A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village

A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village

Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (Third World Studies)

Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars (Adelphi series)