Bangladesh has substantially liberalized its trade and agricultural pricing policies since independence in 1971, removing most distortions to agricultural incentives by the mid-1990s. Although trade protection for some agricultural and industrial products has increased sharply since 1998, total...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Theory of Technical and Institutional Change -- 3 Economic Change in Thailand, 1880 to 1940 -- 4 The Technology of Rice Production, 1880 to 1940 -- 5 Institutional Change: Irrigation Policy -- 6 From Property Rights...