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Bangladesh’s Economy, Bangladeshi Agriculture and the Issues Raised by the ‘Green Revolution’

In: The ‘Green Revolution’ and Economic Development

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  • Mohammad Alauddin

    (University of Queensland)

  • Clement Tisdell

    (University of Queensland)

Abstract

Bangladesh has one of the lowest per capita levels of income in the world and faces formidable development problems. It is often regarded as providing an acid test for development policies, and it highlights many of the issues facing the least developed countries in the world (Faaland and Parkinson, 1976). Bangladesh’s economy is overwhelmingly agricultural and this sector most reflects the country’s poverty. The agricultural economy of Bangladesh provides a useful case study of peasant agriculture under conditions of abject poverty, growing landlessness, an extremely unfavourable land—man ratio and complex socio-economic and natural factors. The country’s agrarian base, its inability to produce enough food to feed its growing population, the overwhelming size of its rural population and the fact that vast majority of this population lives near or below the subsistence level make sustainable growth in agriculture a sine qua non for its sustained economic development (Myrdal, 1968; Johnston and Mellor, 1961).

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  • Mohammad Alauddin & Clement Tisdell, 1991. "Bangladesh’s Economy, Bangladeshi Agriculture and the Issues Raised by the ‘Green Revolution’," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The ‘Green Revolution’ and Economic Development, chapter 1, pages 1-14, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37745-5_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230377455_1
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