Open Access"Green Revolution and Redistribution of Rural Incomes: Pakistan's Experience" A Comment
Author(s) -
Mahmood Hasan Khan
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v22i1pp.47-56
Subject(s) - green revolution , redistribution (election) , economics , income distribution , inequality , distribution (mathematics) , development economics , redistribution of income and wealth , rural area , neoclassical economics , political science , geography , agriculture , law , public good , mathematics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , politics
"Green Revolution would indeed have exacerbated rural incomeinequalities if all that has been said so far accorded with the actualconditions prevailing in Pakistan. It will be shown in this paper thatthe majority of the above arguments are 'not correct, and that part ofthe evidence which has been used to demonstrate the adverse consequencesof Green Revolution on income distribution is particularlyuntrustworthy. The paper also demonstrates that Green Revolution hasbeen the most viable rural development strategy ever pursued inPakistan." [4, pp.174-175]