A Rice Village Saga: Three Decades of Green Revolution in the Philippines

Hayami, Y.; Kikuchi, M.

Waves of modernizing forces, such as the commercialisation of new technology, have been pressing major change upon rural communities in the Third World. But has modernization created greater poverty and inequality? A unique data set generated from eleven surveys during 1966-87 in a typical rice village in the Philippines, illustrates a pattern of socio-economic change shared by many lowland rice areas in the Philippines as well as in other Asian economies. The authors present the lessons drawn from thirty years of detailed empirical research.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-10-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333726174

DOI: 10.1057/9780230599185

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 274