This study investigates the impact of agrarian development programs on rural class structure in Bangladesh, and it highlights how the local administration of infrastructure affected the social stratification of villages. Re-thinking Economic Development shows how the so-called Green Revolution was conducive to the formation of the groundwater market and the emergence of the 'waterlords.' The book demonstrates the ways in which the failure of formal finance facilities contributed to the credit flow from the wealthy to the poor, with the transformation of the potato-marketing system and the structure of rural finance.

About Editors and Authors

FUJITA Koichi is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSAS), Kyoto University. He specializes in agricultural economics and received a PhD in Agriculture from the University of Tokyo in 1992. After serving as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo and as Associate Professor at the CSAS, he took up his current position in 2006.

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