In this article the effect of an agricultural technical change on intra-household welfare is discussed. Existing theories of the household suggest that the distribution of resources within the household is a function of household members' employment. The difference in male and female employment...

The authors explore the conditions under which a certain contract is preferred to others, through an intensive survey of an upland village in West Java. Despite an obvious difficulty in enforcing the terms of a share contract in a highly complex intercropping system, no significant difference in...

In two hamlets in south central Jawa, a series of situations have been identified in which some farm-land is now being used less intensively than other, similar land. In an area of such high population density this appears a paradox. A variety of explanations exist for the less intensive use of...

Patterns of income, savings and wealth accumulation of tenant farmers in the Rahad irrigation scheme of Sudan are examined. Although land and irrigation water are publicly owned and equally distributed in these schemes, unequal access to capital is found to influence strongly the distribution of...

The research revealed no technological unemployment at the aggregate level, but labour per unit of output decreased in automated production lines. The share of skilled workers increased, mainly due to an absolute increase of maintenance jobs. In contrast the share of production workers and their...

Recent studies have examined the relationship between agrarian change and rural poverty in LDCs concentrating on either exchange or non-exchange income. Neither approach employed independently is, however, adequate. Bangladeshi evidence is presented of growing concentration of control of land,...

According to the author, a long-run negative impact of population growth upon real wages is neither theoretically self-evident nor, in the case of rural Bangladesh, empirically clear-cut. In addition to its negative "labour supply effect", population growth may have a positive "labour demand...