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The Agrarian Structure Of Bangladesh An Impediment To Development
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface -- Historical Evolution of the Land System of Bangladesh -- A Quantitative Description of the Agrarian Structure of Bangladesh -- The Need for Agrarian Reform -- Implementation of Agrarian Reform -- Summary and Conclusions -- Methodology and Quality of the Data -- List of Selected Thanas -- Map of Selected Thanas of the 1977 Land Occupancy Survey -- Tables of the 1977 Land Occupancy Survey -- Tables of the 1978 Land Occupancy Survey -- The Economic Theory of Sharecropping -- Glossary
Biography
"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."
