Rural Employment, Technological Change and the Environment

Mohammad Alauddin () and Clement Tisdell

Chapter 4 in The Environment and Economic Development in South Asia, 1998, pp 55-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The agricultural sector of most Asian LDCs, including Bangladesh, is characterised by an abundant and rapidly expanding supply of labour, and by a steadily declining supply of scarce arable land per capita. Limited growth of non-farm agricultural production in several Asian countries places the main burden of employing the increasing labour force on agriculture. This is consistent with Ishikawa’s (1978, p.3) view that the ‘solution to the employment and rural poverty problems in Asia has to be found in the direction of a significant increase in labour absorption in agricultural land ....’ or at least in a significant increase in employment in rural areas.

Keywords: Green Revolution; Labour Intensity; Broad Trend; Rabi Season; Capital Intensity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26392-9_4

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